Bioluminescence is old hat, right? TED’s latest talk from the Mission Blue Voyage featuring Edith Widder’s astounding presentation on bioluminescent animals may have you considering otherwise. Bioluminescence has evolved independently perhaps some 40-50 times? Eighty to ninety percent of life in the oceans has some capacity to produce their own light? Bioluminescent signatures can allow [...]
I have bioluminescence on the brain. I regularly conduct plankton tows within the Indian River Lagoon system that yield a scatting of amphipod larvae, veliger stages for snails, mysids, nauplii from any number of crustaceans, and copepods galore. Right now there are plenty of comb jellyfish (which aren’t really jellyfish at all but belong to the ctenophore [...]
Heard of GFP? Green fluorescent protein is one of a slew of fluorescent proteins (FPs) used in the field of molecular biology and biotechnology to visualize genetic expression patterns in model organisms and live cells. The original GFP, like nearly all other FPs, was sourced from various marine invertebrates hailing out of shallow water habitats including corals and jellyfish. Interestingly, it looks [...]
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