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Diel bioluminescence in heterotrophic and photosynthetic marine dinoflagellates in an Arctic fjord

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

David Lapota ,
David K. Young ,
Stephen A. Bernstein ,
Mark L. Geiger ,
Howard D. Huddell  and
James F. Case
David Lapota
Affiliation:
Naval Ocean Systems Center, Marine Environment Branch, San Diego, California 92152–5000, USA
David K. Young
Affiliation:
Naval Oceanographic & Atmospheric Research Laboratory, Oceanography Division, Stennis Space Center, Mississippi 39529–5004, USA.
Stephen A. Bernstein
Affiliation:
Marine Sciences Institute, University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93106, USA.
Mark L. Geiger
Affiliation:
Naval Oceanographic Office, Code OWSL, Stennis Space Center, Mississippi 39529–5004, USA
Howard D. Huddell
Affiliation:
Naval Oceanographic Office, Code OWSL, Stennis Space Center, Mississippi 39529–5004, USA
James F. Case
Affiliation:
Marine Sciences Institute, University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93106, USA.
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Oceanic and coastal bioluminescence in surface waters, in many instances, is produced by microscopic dinoflagellates. Their light emission is usually observed at a maximum during the night hours and markedly inhibited during the day. This diel periodicity has never been observed in situ for identified species and never before in heterotrophic Protoperidinium dinoflagellates. Pronounced differences in stimulable bioluminescence measured with bathyphotometers in Vestfjord, Norway in September 1990 correlated with simultaneous ship-board laboratory experiments. Cells of both the photosynthetic Ceratium fusus and heterotrophic Protoperidinium curtipes showed a pronounced inhibition of bioluminescence during the day and maximum bioluminescence at night.

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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 72 , Issue 4 , November 1992 , pp. 733 - 744
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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1992

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