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IN a recent communication Parry, Holliday and Blaxter1 reopened the question of the chloride-secreting cells of the gills of fish and, in agreement with Bevelander's2 arguments, they brought new indirect evidence against Keys and Willmer's theory3 and Copeland's4 conclusions.
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COLOMBO, G. Chloride-secreting Cells in the Gills of European Eels. Nature 190, 101 (1961). https://doi.org/10.1038/190101a0
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