Bioluminescent bacteria and the Hawaiian bobtail squid have formed a longstanding mutually beneficial relationship. How the bacteria coordinate their behavior to colonize the squid—through cellular ...
The Hawaiian bobtail squid has long been a darling of the symbiosis research world, a palm-sized cephalopod that spends its nights hunting in shallow seagrass beds off the coast of Oahu, its glow ...
Two bio-researchers, one with Huazhong Agricultural University, the other the Firefly Conservation Research Center, both in China, have identified the key transcription factors that regulate the ...
The journey into a squid isn’t an easy one. But the bioluminescent marine microbe Vibrio fischeri is up for the challenge. Usually a free-living bacterium, V. fischeri has evolved a part-time ...
On one level, we have fireflies figured out. We know the enzyme they use to make light (called luciferase), as well as the chemicals they use in the light-generating reaction. We know them so well ...
Many deep-sea creatures have organs all over their bodies that emit light. Now scientists believe these same organs can actually see. The organs, called photophores, cannot see shapes but FIU marine ...
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