The Spectral Distribution of Firefly Light

The in vivo emission spectra of sixteen species of Jamaican fireflies and four species of American fireflies have been measured with a photoelectric recording spectrometer. A simple technique of stimulation with ethyl acetate vapor was found to elicit bright continuous emission over a period of seve...

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Autores principales: Seliger, H. H., Buck, J. B., Fastie, W. G., McElroy, W. D.
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Rockefeller University Press 1964
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2195396/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14212153
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description The in vivo emission spectra of sixteen species of Jamaican fireflies and four species of American fireflies have been measured with a photoelectric recording spectrometer. A simple technique of stimulation with ethyl acetate vapor was found to elicit bright continuous emission over a period of several minutes. Although the luciferin-luciferase cross-reactions were positive in all cases tested, peak intensity wavelengths show distinct species differences, ranging from 5520 to 5820 A. Widely separated emission peaks arise from the thoracic and abdominal organs respectively in the same animal, the click-beetle, Pyrophorus.
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spelling pubmed-21953962008-04-23 The Spectral Distribution of Firefly Light Seliger, H. H. Buck, J. B. Fastie, W. G. McElroy, W. D. J Gen Physiol Article The in vivo emission spectra of sixteen species of Jamaican fireflies and four species of American fireflies have been measured with a photoelectric recording spectrometer. A simple technique of stimulation with ethyl acetate vapor was found to elicit bright continuous emission over a period of several minutes. Although the luciferin-luciferase cross-reactions were positive in all cases tested, peak intensity wavelengths show distinct species differences, ranging from 5520 to 5820 A. Widely separated emission peaks arise from the thoracic and abdominal organs respectively in the same animal, the click-beetle, Pyrophorus. The Rockefeller University Press 1964-09-01 /pmc/articles/PMC2195396/ /pubmed/14212153 Text en Copyright © 1965 by The Rockefeller Institute Press This article is distributed under the terms of an Attribution–Noncommercial–Share Alike–No Mirror Sites license for the first six months after the publication date (see http://www.rupress.org/terms). After six months it is available under a Creative Commons License (Attribution–Noncommercial–Share Alike 4.0 Unported license, as described at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/).
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