Bioluminescence spans all oceanic dimensions and has evolved many times—from bacteria to fish—to powerfully influence behavioral and ecosystem dynamics. New methods and …
The mesopelagic zone is the oceanic region through which carbon and other elements must pass in order to reach deeper waters or the sea floor. However, the food web interactions …
Highlights•Animals vary in their ability to perceive changes in their environment visually.•Temporal perception can be quantified using critical flicker fusion (CFF).•High CFF …
BA Seibel, JC Drazen - … of the Royal Society B: Biological …, 2007 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The rates of metabolism in animals vary tremendously throughout the biosphere. The origins of this variation are a matter of active debate with some scientists highlighting the …
The discovery of fluorescent proteins has revolutionized experimental biology. Whereas the majority of fluorescent proteins have been identified from cnidarians, recently several …
CA Choy, SHD Haddock… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Food web linkages, or the feeding relationships between species inhabiting a shared ecosystem, are an ecological lens through which ecosystem structure and function can be …
Optical techniques used in medical diagnosis, surgery, and therapy require efficient and flexible delivery of light from light sources to target tissues. While this need is currently …
J Marshall, S Johnsen - … of the Royal Society B: Biological …, 2017 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Fluorescence is a physico-chemical energy exchange where shorter-wavelength photons are absorbed by a molecule and are re-emitted as longer-wavelength photons. It has been …
Light influences most ecosystems on earth, from sun-dappled forests to bioluminescent creatures in the ocean deep. Biologists have long studied nano-and micro-scale organismal …