In situ video recordings of bioluminescence in the ostracod, Conchoecia elegans, and co-occurring bioluminescent plankton in the Gulf of Maine

An in situ video transect technique has been used to identify and map bioluminescent zooplankton based on the spatial and temporal patterns of stimulated bioluminescent displays (1-4). The utility of this mapping technique depends on having an adequate data base of identified displays. Since displays from captured specimens are often radically different from those recorded in situ (1,2), definitive identification of a particular organism with a particular bioluminescent display needs to be confirmed by in situ recordings.

This manuscript is an author version with the final publication available at http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/ and may be cited as: Widder E. A. (1997). In situ video recordings of bioluminescence in the ostracod, Conchoecia elegans, and co-occurring bioluminescent plankton in the Gulf of Maine. In J. W. Hastings, L. J. Kricka, & P. E. Stanley (eds.), Bioluminescence and chemiluminescence: Molecular reporting with photons: proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Bioluminescence and Chemiluminescence at Woods Hole, Massachusetts, October 1996. (pp. 159-164). Chichester: John Wiley.

Florida Atlantic University. Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute contribution #1188.