Explore: Biofluorescence

Biofluorescence is fluorescence exhibited by a living organism: part of the organism absorbs light or other radiation at one wavelength and emits visible

Little is known about its biofluorescence, but both species of springhare are the first thoroughly documented cases of biofluorescence in an Old World eutherian

differs from biofluorescence in that it is the natural production of light by chemical reactions within an organism, whereas biofluorescence and biophosphorescence

Swell shark biofluorescence was first reported in 2014. Researchers presented species-specific emission patterns, indicating that biofluorescence potentially

forms across all kingdoms of life. The latter is often referred to as biofluorescence, indicating that the fluorophore is part of or derived from a living

vulnerable. Marbled salamanders have been found to exhibit prominent biofluorescence under ultraviolet excitation along the bones in their digits and the

PMC 1692312. PMID 9720115. Anich, Paula Spaeth (15 October 2020). "Biofluorescence in the platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus)". Mammalia. 85 (2): 179–181

Gruber, D. F. (2006). Aglow in the Dark: The Revolutionary Science of Biofluorescence. Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-02413-7. Herring, Peter (2002)

repeated evolution of biofluorescence in elasmobranchs, coupled with a visual adaptation to detect it; and evidence that biofluorescence creates greater luminosity

begin to spend time close to the seafloor. Juvenile lumpfish exhibit biofluorescence, that is, when they are illuminated, light absorbed by the organism