Oba, who specializes in bioluminescence, said the mollusks may be mimicking other luminescent creatures that are believed to glow partly to warn that they are poisonous. He cited the venomous ...

It offers both a planar view (where the light source is registered on the animal’s surface) and a single-view 3-D reconstruction of both fluorescent and luminescent reporters. When used with mice, the ...

The group discovered a luminescent ceriantharian (tube anemone), which may be a new species, though this remains to be confirmed. They isolated a novel GFP (called cerFP505) from the animal's ...