Luminescent
bacteria on petri plates.
Luminescent
bacteria on petri plates.
Railroad worm . One of the few organisms
that can emit light of two different colors.
Railroad worm . Another view.
Pyrocystis Lunula.
Fluorescence microscope image of a night phase cell on left, with white
showing bioluminscence, and a day cell on the right. Red is chlorophyll
fluorescence.
Gonyaulax polyedra
Fluorescence microscope image of a night-phase cell on right, and a day
cell on the left. Red is chlorophyll fluorescence, white is luciferin
fluorescence.
Gonyaulax polyedra
An artificially-colorized image of a night-phase cell on lower right,
and a day cell on the upper left. The yellow dots on the lower right
image are scintillons, the light-emitting organelles. These images are
of immunolabelled sections of cells probed with an antibody to
luciferin binding protein (LBP), one of two protein involved in light
production. Image provided by Prof.
Larry Fritz (Northern Arizona University).
