Abstract
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.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Photobiology — The science of life and light, 2nd. ed. |
Editors | Lars Olof Björn |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 591-615 |
ISBN (Print) | 978-0-387-72654-0 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2008 |
Subject classification (UKÄ)
- Biological Sciences
Free 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