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Bioluminescence

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Author

Editor

  • Lars Olof Björn

Summary, in English

Three kinds of light emission are taking place from organisms: bioluminescence in a narrow sense from some animals, dinoflagellatees, fungi and bacteria; delayed light emission from photosynthetic cells; ultraweak light emission from all kinds of cells. All these phenomena are treated in this chapter.

Publishing year

2008

Language

English

Pages

591-615

Publication/Series

Photobiology — The science of life and light, 2nd. ed.

Document type

Book chapter

Publisher

Springer

Topic

  • Biological Sciences

Keywords

  • Delayed light emission Delayed fluorescence Ultraweak light emission Bioluminescence Predation Food aquisition ROS Reactive oxygen species Light production Vibrio Photobacterium Lucibacterium Alteromonas Xenorhabdus lux DNA repair Luciferin Luciferase

Status

Published

Project

  • Photobiology

Research group

  • Photobiology

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISBN: 978-0-387-72654-0