Bioluminescence: Nature and Science at Work - page 11

Hawaiian bobtail squid, 16–17, 37
infrared radiation, 10
jellyfish, 8, 13, 20, 33,42–43, 45, 58,
62–63
kissing bugs, 49–50
and Darwin, 50
lucibufagin, 29–30
luciferase, 8–9, 18, 30–31, 35, 36
luciferin, 8–9, 18, 30–31, 35, 36
mantis shrimp
and biofluorescence,41
and vision, 10
medical research. See green fluorescent
protein (GFP); red fluorescent protein
Medusa jellyfish robot, 33–35
model organisms, 27, 58. See also fireflies
mosquitoes and disease, 53–57
Naturalis Historiae. See Pliny the Elder
Nobel Prize, 11
ocean zones diagram, 14
phosphorescence, 20,39
definition, 19
photocytes, 31
photophores, 15, 17, 25, 37
photoreceptors,41
Pliny the Elder, 20–21
quorum sensing, 37
red fluorescent protein, 49, 56
and Chagas disease, 49–50
and malaria, 55–57, 63
scientists
Betzig, Eric, 11
Chalfie, Martin, 11, 46
Chaudhry, Hina, 60–61
Darwin, Charles, 50
Davis, Daniel, 62
Hell, Stefan, 11
McElroy, William, 30–31
Ménard, Robert, 56
Moerner, William, 11
Prasher, Douglas, 46
Shimomura, Osamu, 11,43 , 45, 46
Svoboda, Karel, 51
Tsien, Roger, 11, 46
Widder, Edith, 33–35
stem cells, 58–61, 63
stop codon, 46–47
super-resolution microscopy, 11
symbiosis, 24
ultraviolet radiation, 10
viruses, 52–53, 61
visible light spectrum, 10, 20, 45
Wang, Vega, 34
zoonotic virus, 52
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