This phenomenon occurs in an organ called the esca, which protrudes dorsally from the spine via the illicium in species like O. acanthias, and is believed to contain bacteria of family Vibrionaceae.
This phenomenon occurs in an organ called the esca, which protrudes dorsally from the spine via the illicium in species like O. acanthias, and is believed to contain bacteria of family Vibrionaceae. Coelenterazine is a substrate in one reaction that causes this phenomenon; that reaction, occurring in Renilla, is often leveraged in an imaging technique called (*) BRET. In another organism, this phenomenon is the product of an operon whose Y subunits encode YFP; in that organism, A. fischeri, the lux operon's A and B subunits encode a luciferase, which catalyzes the oxidation of a luciferin into an electronically-excited state, from which the luciferin then decays. For 10 points, name this phenomenon in which a living organism emits light, observed in anglerfish and fireflies.
This phenomenon occurs in an organ called the esca, which protrudes dorsally from the spine via the illicium in species like O. acanthias, and is believed to contain bacteria of family Vibrionaceae.
bioluminescence (accept chemiluminescence; prompt on "fluorescence")