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A puzzling homology: a brittle star using a putative cnidarian-type luciferase for bioluminescence.
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- Insights into the bioluminescence systems of three sea pens (Cnidaria: Anthozoa): from de novo transcriptome analyses to biochemical assays.Open biology · 2025Article
- Availability and occurrence of coelenterazine in a Swedish fjord to maintain Amphiura filiformis bioluminescence.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- The brittle star genome illuminates the genetic basis of animal appendage regeneration.Nature ecology & evolution · 2024Article
- Maintain the light, long-term seasonal monitoring of luminous capabilities in the brittle star Amphiura filiformis.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Similar enzymatic functions in distinct bioluminescence systems: evolutionary recruitment of sulfotransferases in ostracod light organs.Biology letters · 2024Article
- Evolution of bioluminescence in Anthozoa with emphasis on Octocorallia.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2024Article
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- 14-3-3 proteins are luciferases candidate proteins from lanternfish Diaphus watasei.Photochemical & photobiological sciences : Official journal of the European Photochemistry Association and the European Society for Photobiology · 2023Article
- Acquisition of bioluminescent trait by non-luminous organisms from luminous organisms through various origins.Photochemical & photobiological sciences : Official journal of the European Photochemistry Association and the European Society for Photobiology · 2021Review
- Bioluminescence and Photoreception in Unicellular Organisms: Light-Signalling in a Bio-Communication Perspective.International journal of molecular sciences · 2021Review
- Violet bioluminescent Polycirrus sp. (Annelida: Terebelliformia) discovered in the shallow coastal waters of the Noto Peninsula in Japan.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Terrestrial and marine bioluminescent organisms from the Indian subcontinent: a review.Environmental monitoring and assessment · 2020Review
- A putative chordate luciferase from a cosmopolitan tunicate indicates convergent bioluminescence evolution across phyla.Scientific reports · 2020Article
- Diversity and evolution of bacterial bioluminescence genes in the global ocean.NAR genomics and bioinformatics · 2020Article
- New Zealand glowworm (Arachnocampa luminosa) bioluminescence is produced by a firefly-like luciferase but an entirely new luciferin.Scientific reports · 2018Article
- De novo transcriptome analyses provide insights into opsin-based photoreception in the lanternshark Etmopterus spinax.PloS one · 2018Article
- The complex simplicity of the brittle star nervous system.Frontiers in zoology · 2018Article
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Abstract
Bioluminescence relies on the oxidation of a luciferin substrate catalysed by a luciferase enzyme. Luciferins and luciferases are generic terms used to describe a large variety of substrates and enzymes. Whereas luciferins can be shared by phylogenetically distant organisms which feed on organisms producing them, luciferases have been thought to be lineage-specific enzymes. Numerous light emission systems would then have co-emerged independently along the tree of life resulting in a plethora of non-homologous luciferases. Here, we identify for the first time a candidate luciferase of a luminous echinoderm, the ophiuroid
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