Yolk-Absorption in Loligo and the function of the embryonic liver and pancreas

Abstract

ABSTRACT Although many details of Cephalopod development have long been known to biologists, the physiology of the developing animal was, for many years, practically unstudied. The method by which the yolk is absorbed was, in particular, completely unknown. Faussek, in his paper of 1901, summarized the knowledge then existing, and so few have been the additions of later years that, in the brief abstract now given, we follow him almost verbatim.