Bioluminescence
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Bioluminescence is the production of light by an organism as the result of a chemiluminescence reaction. It occurs in a wide variety of organisms, including marine vertebrates and invertebrates, terre
Flying and glowing firefly, Photinus pyralis
Female glowworm, Lampyris noctiluca
Osamu Shimomura isolated the photoprotein aequorin and its cofactor coelenterazine from the crystal jelly Aequorea victoria in 1961.
Mycena chlorophos, a bioluminescent mushroom.
Firefly
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The Lampyridae are a family of elateroid beetles with more than 2,400 described species, many of which are light-emitting. They are soft-bodied beetles commonly called fireflies, lightning bugs, or gl
Bioluminescence
…a chemiluminescence reaction. It occurs in a wide variety of organisms, including marine vertebrates and invertebrates, terrestrial arthropods such as fireflies, some fungi, and microorganisms such as some bacteria and dinoflagellates. In some animals, the light is bacteriogenic, produced by symbiotic bacteria…
Photuris lucicrescens
Photuris female by flash photography (above); by her own light (below)
Lamprohiza female by her own light
Fireflies in the woods near Nuremberg, Germany, 30-second exposure