He added that some fish also are thought to use Bioluminescence as camouflage.
So this tells us Bioluminescence is almost a requirement for fishes to be successful.”.
Combined with the Bioluminescence live tumor imaging,
this mouse model allows tumor growth and progression kinetics to be monitored and quantified.
Tiny particles swirl down through the darkness while flashes of Bioluminescence give us a clue that these waters teem with life:
microbes, plankton, fish.
To follow this line of inquiry, Smith and his co-authors are now working to
identify specific genes associated with the production of Bioluminescence in fishes.
Indeed, the authors show with genetic analysis that Bioluminescence has evolved independently 27 times
in 14 major fish clades- groups of fish that come from a common ancestor.
A study appearing in the
journal PLOS ONE this week shows that Bioluminescence- the production of light from a living organism-
is more widespread among marine fishes than previously understood.
To follow this line of inquiry, Smith and his co-authors now are working with a grant from the National Science Foundation to
identify specific genes associated with the production of Bioluminescence in fish.
The equipment being used to detect neutrinos is also sensitive to Bioluminescence, providing scientists with data to study trends
in this emission of light by marine animals- used to camouflage, attract, defend, warn, communicate, mimic and illuminate.
Smith said the huge variety in ways bony fish can deploy Bioluminescence-- such as leveraging bioluminescent bacteria,
channeling light though fiber-optic-like systems or using specialized light-producing organs-- underlines the importance of Bioluminescence to vertebrate fish in a major swath of the world's deep seas called the"deep scattering layer.".