• A photocyte is a cell that specializes in catalyzing enzymes to produce light (bioluminescence). Photocytes typically occur in select layers of epithelial...
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    of prey, from specialized mitochondrial cells in the organism called photocytes ("light producing" cells), or, similarly, associated with symbiotic bacteria...
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    vacuoles (internal compartments), germ cells that produce eggs or sperm, and photocytes that produce bioluminescence. The side furthest from the organ is covered...
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    begins with a linear polarization due to inhomogeneities inside aligned photocytes, and it picks up circular polarization while passing through linearly...
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    lanternfish is mechanistically tuned to project the biochemical emission in photocytes for counterillumination". Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications...
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    "Missing link in firefly bioluminescence revealed: NO regulation of photocyte respiration". BioEssays. 23 (11): 992–995. doi:10.1002/bies.1144. PMID 11746215...
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    luciferase-luciferin reaction, he showed that water could produce light from dried photocytes and that light could be produced even in the absence of oxygen. Later...
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    bioluminesce. The light is generated by photophores that consist of a single photocyte within a cup-shaped pigmented cell, with lens cells on the surface. The...
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    trigger these photocytes to react. With this line of thinking, scientists are working to develop technology using this type of neuro-photocyte unit. These...
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    chord in order to trigger the luminescence. The fluorescent cells are photocytes, which can be found under the ventral, dorsal, and lateral arm plates...
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    Etmopterus splendidus are typical of etmopterid sharks, "i.e. a cluster of photocytes enclosed in a pigmented sheath and surmounted by pigmented and lens cells"...
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    small photogenic organs called photophores. A photophore is composed of photocytes, the cells where bioluminescent reactions take place, arranged in a cup...
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    photophores. Each photophore contains several light-producing vesicles called photocytes and photophores also have an iris-like structure that may allow sharks...
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