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Article: Shear-stress dependence of dinoflagellate bioluminescence.
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- The Biological Bulletin
- Article date:
- June 1, 2007
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Introduction
Bioluminescence is a cosmopolitan phenomenon in the world's oceans, visible in breaking waves (Stokes et al., 2004), ships' wakes (Rohr et al., 2002), and around swimming animals (Rohr et al., 1998). The most common sources of bioluminescence in near-surface waters are dinoflagellates, which at high concentrations can highlight moving objects (Rohr et al., 1998; Latz and Rohr, 2005). Dinoflagellate bioluminescence is believed to serve an antipredation function by reducing predator grazing (Esaias and Curl, 1972; White, 1979) through disruption of feeding behavior (Buskey and Swift, 1983; Buskey et al., 1985). Dinoflagellate bioluminescence can also ...
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