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The cosmopolitan bristle worm, Chaetopterus variopedatus, lives in a U-shaped parchment tube in coastal intertidal soft sediment zones. They secrete a bioluminescent mucus layer & emit blue light from mid-body parapodia. #WormWednesday 🐛 #HappyNewYear 🎉
#8NightsofBioLights 🕎 The Light Bulb Tunicate, Clavelina lepadiformis, is native to Europe & introduced to South Africa, South Korea, & the US Atlantic Coast. Zooids are transparent with yellow bands, giving them a light-bulb appearance. https://t.co/T48HPKEKWd #TunicateTuesdays
Happy Hanukkah to all who celebrate! 🕎
For #8NightsofBioLights, we will feature #bioluminescent critters that light up our oceans! Noctiluca scintillans is a species of dinoflagellate that emits a brilliant blue glow when disturbed and is found all over the world!
#SeaSparkle
#8NightsofBioLights🕎 FIREWORM vs FIRE CORAL! 😲🔥 This fireworm (Hermodice carunculata) is sucking on fire coral (Millepora sp), which can give any snorkeler or diver a nasty sting and painful burns. Talk about a stomach of steel! 😳📷Allen Collins (NOAA) https://t.co/17ZhvjItbm
#8NightsofBioLights🕎 Meet the Lightbulb siphonophore, Rosacea spp! This deep sea dweller feeds on small crustaceans & uses its deadly tentacles to lure prey. It pulls in its tentacles, giving it a lightbulb appearance, when moving to new feeding grounds. https://t.co/we2US2e4SZ
#8NightsofBioLights🕎 "THIS SLUG IS ON FI-YAHHHH! FIYAH!" 🎶🔥 This sea slug, Antiopella cristata, with its bright orange body and yellow-tipped, flame-like cerata looks like it's on fire! It definitely sets our hearts ablaze! 😍
#8NightsofBioLights🕎 Mnemiopsis leidyi is an #invasive comb jelly with numerous, ciliated combs that emit greenish light in the dark. A recent study found that cannibalism makes them resilient to unfavorable environmental conditions! 😮📷Wikimedia Commons https://t.co/ELpjcStvqh
#8NightsofBioLights🕎 Tubastraea coccinea is an #invasive coral. It's introduced in the Gulf of Mexico, Atlantic coast of Florida, Caribbean, Brazil & possibly West Africa. In the water, its tentacles look like dancing flames! 🔥🤗 📷Frank & Joyce Burek https://t.co/N417B3yFoA
#8NightsofBioLights🕎 The Light Bulb Tunicate is a colonial tunicate native to Europe and introduced to South Africa, South Korea, and the US East Coast. Zooids are transparent with colored bands giving them a light-bulb appearance. https://t.co/T48HPKEKWd 📷Esculapio #invaders
#8NightsofBioLights🕎 Happy Hannukah to all who celebrate! 😀 This week, we're celebrating all things FIRE & LIGHT in the marine environment. From tunicates that look like lightbulbs to fiery sea slugs, we'll highlight some of these bright & shiny beauties! 🤗🌊🔥✨
#8NightsofBioLights🕎 Bioluminescence has been a source of inspiration for many. In 2011, artist Shih Chieh Huang created an exhibit meant to invoke the same sense of wonder & curiosity he felt when studying #bioluminescent creatures from the deep 🎨. https://t.co/NLqKFhVEDK
#8NightsofBioLights🕎 Many marine organisms like squid and fish use #bioluminescent bacteria to attract prey or mates and defend themselves from predators. What do artists do with bioluminescent bacteria? They CREATE & INSPIRE 🤩 #ScienceMeetsArt
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#8NightsofBiolights Another reason animals light up: PROTECTION! Often, copepods & worms will use strong flashes of light to scare, distract, or confuse predators. Some fish use counterillumination to hide themselves at the surface from predators below. https://t.co/2WiigY3KVR
#8NightsofBioLights🕎 Why else do animals light up? TO FIND THEIR SOULMATE! Okay not really 😅 , but some do use light to attract mates. Some ostracods and syllid fireworms will use bioluminescent light signals to attract a mate! 📷 Moorea biocode 2010 https://t.co/2WiigY3KVR
#8NightsofBioLights Why do some animals light up? TO EAT! The Stauroteuthis octopus uses #bioluminescence to lure prey toward its mouth & cookie cutter sharks have a glowing underside that attracts whales & squid close enough to take a bite out of them!😱https://t.co/2WiigY3KVR
#8NightsofBioLights🕎 Tintinnids aren't #bioluminescent, but our researchers have a way to light them up! When #ShipSampling, we use stains to determine viability. Live cells treated with CMFDA or FDA become #flourescent & glow bright green! 🤩 #zooplankton 📷 B. Soler-Figueroa
#8NightsofBioLights🕎 Pyrosomes, typically found in warmer waters, have invaded the coasts of British Columbia, Oregon, & Alaska. These jelly-like, #bioluminescent organisms have become quite the nuisance, disrupting fisheries and the local environment 😬 https://t.co/288vg4Eemr
#8NightsofBioLights🕎 But what causes our seas to sparkle so beautifully at night? ✨😍 #SeaSparkle #Bioluminescent #dinoflagellates #Noctiluca #disturbance https://t.co/4SNqmk0YtS
Kicking off our #8NightsofBioLights🕎 with a little #SeaSparkle! ✨ From India & Australia to the Baltic Sea & Southern CA coastline, #bioluminescent dinoflagellates (Noctiluca) can be seen lighting up our world’s oceans & beaches in a bright blue frenzy! https://t.co/rEsUtOEpOH
Chaetopterus variopedatus—why do they glow? Despite decades of research, there are still many questions about the creation/function of bioluminescence in this tube worm! Mirza et al. discuss possible functions here: https://t.co/hQQtJjSUlF #WormWednesday #8NightsofBioLights🕎
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