Fluorescent Dive and WHY Do Corals Fluoresce

Описание: #fluorescence #coral #nightdive #mobygratis
Some footage of fluorescent corals and anemones rom the Philippines, and a mini-lecture about the evolution of coral fluorescence. WHY did fluorescence evolve in cnidarians (corals and anemones).

Filmed on scuba with a ‪@OMSYSTEMCameras‬ TG7, ‪@ORCATORCHWorldwide‬ video light and a ‪@DJI‬ Osmo4 in the Philippines.

Papers mentioned:
Alieva, N. O., Konzen, K. A., Field, S. F., Meleshkevitch, E. A., Hunt, M. E., Beltran-Ramirez, V., ... & Matz, M. V. (2008). Diversity and evolution of coral fluorescent proteins. PloS one, 3(7), e2680.
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/art...
Gong, S., Liang, J., Li, G., Xu, L., Tan, Y., Zheng, X., ... & Xia, X. (2024). Linking coral fluorescence phenotypes to thermal bleaching in the reef-building Galaxea fascicularis from the northern South China Sea. Marine Life Science & Technology, 6(1), 155-167.
https://link.springer.com/article/10....
GFP Image: By Jawahar Swaminathan and MSD staff at the European Bioinformatics Institute - https://www.ebi.ac.uk/pdbe/static/ent..., displayed on https://www.ebi.ac.uk/pdbe/entry/pdb/..., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...

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