Bioluminescence is the production and emission of light by living organisms. It is a form of chemiluminescence. Bioluminescence occurs widely in marine...
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Bioluminescence imaging (BLI) is a technology developed over the past decades (1990's and onward).[when?] that allows for the noninvasive study of ongoing...
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Foxfire (redirect from Foxfire (bioluminescence))
Foxfire, also called fairy fire and chimpanzee fire, is the bioluminescence created by some species of fungi present in decaying wood. The bluish-green...
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Aliivibrio fischeri (section Bioluminescence)
bacterium is a key research organism for examination of microbial bioluminescence, quorum sensing, and bacterial-animal symbiosis. It is named after...
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Stomiidae (section Bioluminescence in Stomiidae)
that can produce their own light through a chemical process known as bioluminescence. A special organ known as a photophore helps produce this light. The...
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that glow through bioluminescence. They include the European common glow-worm and other members of the Lampyridae, but bioluminescence also occurs in the...
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possess photophores, luminous organs, and exhibit intrinsic bioluminescence. Bioluminescence evolved once in Squaliformes, approximately 111–153 million...
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bioluminescence is an honest aposematic warning signal to predators. Light production in fireflies is due to the chemical process of bioluminescence....
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Noctiluca scintillans (section Bioluminescence)
when in this 'phase' of bioluminescence, so this may be one of the functions of bioluminescence. The function of bioluminescence has not yet been proven...
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Malacosteus niger (section Red bioluminescence)
to produce both red and blue bioluminescence. Most mesopelagic species aren't capable of producing red bioluminescence. This is advantageous because...
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excitation of the acceptor or to photobleaching. To avoid this drawback, bioluminescence resonance energy transfer (or BRET) has been developed. This technique...
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Pyrosome (section Bioluminescence)
"body". Although many planktonic organisms are bioluminescent, pyrosome bioluminescence is unusual in its brilliance and sustained light emission, and evoked...
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Omphalotus nidiformis Bioluminescence is the production of light by living organisms. This list of bioluminescent organisms is organized by the environment...
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Panellus stipticus (section Bioluminescence)
of the gills and the junction of the gills with the stem and cap. Bioluminescence is also observable with mycelia grown in laboratory culture, and the...
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Luciferase (category Bioluminescence)
is a generic term for the class of oxidative enzymes that produce bioluminescence, and is usually distinguished from a photoprotein. The name was first...
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Motyxia (section Bioluminescence)
have the ability to glow brightly: some of the few known instances of bioluminescence in millipedes. Adult Motyxia reach 3 to 4 cm in length, 4.5 to 8 mm...
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Filoboletus manipularis (section Bioluminescence)
fruiting body, or none of the fruiting body displaying bioluminescence. When bioluminescence is observed, the fruiting body emits typically 595 photons...
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Arachnocampa luminosa (section Bioluminescence)
to New Zealand. The larval stage and the imago produce a blue-green bioluminescence. The species is known to dwell in caves and on sheltered banks in native...
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Slendertail lanternshark (section Bioluminescence)
implies that there is a limit to how beneficial the slendertail's bioluminescence is at higher depths, limiting the sharks movement up the water column...
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in living cells. No correlation of fungal bioluminescence with cell structure has been found. Bioluminescence may occur in both mycelia and fruit bodies...
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fundamental and applied aspects of all forms of luminescence, including bioluminescence, chemiluminescence, electrochemiluminescence, sonoluminescence, triboluminescence...
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process by which bioluminescence is created is very similar to what happens when a glow stick is broken. Deep-sea organisms use bioluminescence for everything...
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Atolla jellyfish (section Bioluminescence)
may be floating nearby. Bioluminescence is the production of visible light by a living organism (Herring 2004). Bioluminescence is a common phenomenon...
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Bioluminescent bacteria (category Bioluminescence)
fish and in the gut of marine animals. While not as common, bacterial bioluminescence is also found in terrestrial and freshwater bacteria. These bacteria[clarification...
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Firefly squid (section Bioluminescence and vision)
unclear in the scientific community exactly how this species uses their bioluminescence. The firefly squid is a predator and actively hunts its food, which...
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Siphonophorae (section Bioluminescence)
attract and attack prey. While many sea animals produce blue and green bioluminescence, a siphonophore in the genus Erenna was only the second life form found...
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Vargula hilgendorfii (section Bioluminescence)
water. At night, it feeds actively. V. hilgendorfii is known for its bioluminescence. It produces a blue-coloured light by a specialized chemical reaction...
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Pyrocystis fusiformis (section Bioluminescence)
reaching lengths of up to 1 millimetre (0.039 in). P. fusiformis display bioluminescence when disturbed or agitated. In coastal marine waters, this dinoflagellate...
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in the water column. E. Newton Harvey had noted the unusual yellow bioluminescence occurring from the parapodia. There are very few known marine animals...
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Peter J. (1987). "Systematic distribution of bioluminescence in living organisms". Journal of Bioluminescence and Chemiluminescence. 1 (3): 147–163. doi:10...
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