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The vertebrate pineal hormone melatonin is produced by the brown alga Pterygophora californica and mimics dark effects on growth rate in the light
Melatonin, a methoxylated indoleamine, plays a role as a mediator of darkness in animals as well as in the unicellular alga Gonyaulax polyedra Stein and was recently detected in higher plants. We report on the fi...