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  • Thumbnail for Anglerfish
    a luminescent organ called the esca at the tip of a modified dorsal ray (the illicium or fishing rod; derived from Latin ēsca, "bait"). The organ has...
    47 KB (4,904 words) - 10:08, 20 August 2024
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    high. Pyrosomes are colonial tunicates and each zooid has a pair of luminescent organs on either side of the inlet siphon. When stimulated by light, these...
    75 KB (8,096 words) - 09:16, 17 August 2024
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    are completely larviform. Males may be luminescent, but females and larvae have a series of luminescent organs on trunk segments which emit yellow or...
    5 KB (450 words) - 20:35, 29 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Railroad worm
    bioluminescence. It has the appearance of a caterpillar. The eleven pairs of luminescent organs on their second thoracic segment through their ninth abdominal segment...
    3 KB (321 words) - 18:32, 16 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Pacific viperfish
    adrenaline intravenously. There is a simple, un-pigmented type of luminescent organ found in these fish that is found within a gelatinous sheath which...
    14 KB (1,699 words) - 16:33, 25 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Deep-sea fish
    like a net by opening its jaws and swimming towards prey. It has a luminescent organ at the tip of its tail to attract prey. The black swallower, with...
    59 KB (6,769 words) - 09:10, 15 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Photostomias
    Photostomias guernei showing bio-luminescent organ...
    1 KB (61 words) - 14:30, 15 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Pelagic fish
    net by opening its large mouth and swimming at its prey. It has a luminescent organ at the tip of its tail to attract prey. The black swallower, with...
    74 KB (8,402 words) - 20:02, 3 August 2024
  • An organ-on-a-chip (OOC) is a multi-channel 3-D microfluidic cell culture, integrated circuit (chip) that simulates the activities, mechanics and physiological...
    95 KB (11,708 words) - 04:53, 17 June 2024
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    being budded off around the edge of the elongating colony. A pair of luminescent organs is on either side of the inlet siphon of each zooid. When stimulated...
    11 KB (1,165 words) - 01:32, 19 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Pyrophorus nyctophanus
    ability to produce light. An intense glow emanates from two round luminescent organs on the prothorax and a broad area on the underside of the first abdominal...
    3 KB (276 words) - 17:17, 17 March 2023
  • Thumbnail for Bobtail squid
    a special light organ in the squid's mantle. The luminescent properties of the bacteria regulate gene expression in the light organ. The bacteria are...
    5 KB (522 words) - 02:12, 10 August 2024
  • and a luminous organ that gleams due to bioluminescence unlike some other species of Sagittidae. To be more precise, the luminescent organ is located on...
    3 KB (343 words) - 00:50, 3 August 2021
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    are nocturnal, although numerous species are diurnal and usually not luminescent; however, some species that remain in shadowy areas may produce light...
    41 KB (3,955 words) - 05:37, 24 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Quantula striata
    Retrieved 11 April 2024. Daston, M. M.; Copeland, J. (1993). "The luminescent organ and sexual maturity in Dyakia striata". Malacologia. 35 (1): 9–19...
    9 KB (841 words) - 06:31, 1 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Phengodes laticollis
    females are in larviform. The males are luminescent, the females and the larvae, however, have luminescent organs on their trunk segments. This allows for...
    20 KB (2,378 words) - 17:44, 8 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of non-marine molluscs of Malaysia
    Retrieved 14 September 2010. Daston M. M. & Copeland J. (1993). "The luminescent organ and sexual maturity in Dyakia striata". Malacologia 35(1): 9–19. abstract...
    30 KB (2,044 words) - 21:56, 21 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Euprymna scolopes
    competitive advantage over the luminescent wild-type, however nonluminescent mutants are never found in the light organ of the E. scolopes. In fact, experimental...
    20 KB (2,212 words) - 15:59, 26 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of non-marine molluscs of Thailand
    Wayback Machine: 363–369. PDF Daston M. M. & Copeland J. (1993) "The luminescent organ and sexual maturity in Dyakia striata". Malacologia 35(1): 9-19. abstract...
    30 KB (2,153 words) - 00:46, 12 December 2023
  • Thumbnail for Pyrophorus (beetle)
    potential predator). They have two luminescent spots at the posterior corners of the pronotum, and another brighter light organ on the most-anterior surface...
    5 KB (434 words) - 21:39, 16 January 2023
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