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Dinoflagellates are single-celled organisms that live in lakes, rivers, and oceans. Some species that live in the ocean flash on contact.
This dinoflagellate model (11,000 times life size!) can be seen in Creatures of Light.
Photo by Denis
the mantis shrimp. on top of being bioluminescent, these dudes have extremely powerful claws and can see what amounts to roughly 12 primarily colors (from infrared to somewhere in UV and multiple types of polarized light). OH and they can focus on three things at once with EACH eye, which have 360 vision.
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Bioluminsecent Phytoplankton - Dinoflagellates
The biological light, or bioluminescence, in the waves is the product of marine microbes called phytoplankton—and now scientists think they know how some of these life-forms create their brilliant blue glow.
The most common type of marine bioluminescence is generated by phytoplankton known as dinoflagellates. A recent study co-authored by Hastings has for the first time identified a special channel in the dinoflagellate cell membrane that responds to electrical signals—offering a potential mechanism for how the algae create their unique illumination.
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