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ArticleScientific reports2017

Inertial bioluminescence rhythms at the Capo Passero (KM3NeT-Italia) site, Central Mediterranean Sea.

J Aguzzi, E Fanelli, T Ciuffardi, A Schirone, J Craig, KM3NeT-Italia/NEMO Collaboration

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Article in Scientific reports, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

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6 authors at 20 institutions in 4 countries.

J AguzziInstituto de Ciencias del Mar (ICM) del Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Paseo Marítimo de la Barceloneta, 37-49, 08003 Barcelona Spain.
E FanelliENEA, Marine Environment Research Centre, P.O. Box 224, 19100 Pozzuolo di Lerici (SP), Italy.
T CiuffardiENEA, Marine Environment Research Centre, P.O. Box 224, 19100 Pozzuolo di Lerici (SP), Italy.
A SchironeENEA, Marine Environment Research Centre, P.O. Box 224, 19100 Pozzuolo di Lerici (SP), Italy.
J CraigOceanlab, University of Aberdeen, Main Street, Newburgh, AB41 6AA, UK.
KM3NeT-Italia/NEMO Collaboration
Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Laboratori Nazionali del Sud · ITIstituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Roma I · ITIstituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Catania · ITIstituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Napoli · ITIstituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Pisa · ITIstituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Genova · ITIstituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Bari · ITIstituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Bologna · ITNational Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development · ITUniversity of Genoa · ITIstituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Gruppo Collegato di SalernoOsservatorio astronomico di Bologna · ITSapienza University of Rome · ITUniversity of Bologna · ITUniversity of Pisa · ITUniversity of Salerno · ITConsejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas · ESIstituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati · ITOspedale di Livorno · ITUniversity of Aberdeen · GB

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In the deep sea, the sense of time is dependent on geophysical fluctuations, such as internal tides and atmospheric-related inertial currents, rather than day-night rhythms. Deep-sea neutrino telescopes instrumented with light detecting Photo-Multiplier Tubes (PMT) can be used to describe the synchronization of bioluminescent activity of abyssopelagic organisms with hydrodynamic cycles. PMT readings at 8 different depths (from 3069 to 3349 m) of the NEMO Phase 2 prototype, deployed offshore Capo Passero (Sicily) at the KM3NeT-Italia site, were used to characterize rhythmic bioluminescence patterns in June 2013, in response to water mass movements. We found a significant (p < 0.05) 20.5 h periodicity in the bioluminescence signal, corresponding to inertial fluctuations. Waveform and Fourier analyses of PMT data and tower orientation were carried out to identify phases (i.e. the timing of peaks) by subdividing time series on the length of detected inertial periodicity. A phase overlap between rhythms and cycles suggests a mechanical stimulation of bioluminescence, as organisms carried by currents collide with the telescope infrastructure, resulting in the emission of light. A bathymetric shift in PMT phases indicated that organisms travelled in discontinuous deep-sea undular vortices consisting of chains of inertially pulsating mesoscale cyclones/anticyclones, which to date remain poorly known.

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