Bioluminescence in Progress / / Yata Haneda, Frank H. Johnson.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1931-1979
• VerfasserIn: Johnson, Frank H.,; Haneda, Yata,
• MitwirkendeR: Airth, R.L.,; Akutagawa, M.,; Bassot, Jean-Marie,; Behrens, Patricia Q.,; Bouck, G.B.,; Buck, J. B.,; Buck, John B.,; Chase, Atjrin M.,; Cormier, M. J.,; Cormier, M.J.,; Desa, R.,; Eckert, Roger,; Foerster, G. Elizabeth,; Friedland, Joan,; Gasha, T.,; Gibson, Q. H.,; Hagins, W. A.,; Haneda, Y.,; Haneda, Yata,; Hanson, F. E.,; Hastings, J. W.,; Hastings, J.W.,; Hori, K.,; Johnson, F. H.,; Johnson, F.H.,; Johnson, Frank Η.,; Jordan, A.,; Kreiss, P.,; Kuwabara, S.,; Lee, J.,; McElroy, W.D.,; Nakamura, Hiroshi,; Okada, Yo K.,; Prichard, P.M.,; Reynolds, G. T.,; Saiga, Y.,; Seliger, H.H.,; Shimomura, O.,; Shimoura, O.,; Sie, E.H.-C.,; Spudich, J.,; Stachel, H.-D.,; Sugiyama, N.,; Sweeney, Beatrice M.,; Taylor, E. C.,; Thanos, A.,; Totter, J. R.,; Totter, John R.,; Tsuji, .I.,; Vergin, Marcia,; Wassink, E.C.,; Wesley, A. S.,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2015]; ©1966
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Princeton Legacy Library ; 2013
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (676 p.)

The study of bioluminescence-visible light emitted by living organisms-is truly in progress, as these 35 papers contributed by 49 of the leading scientists active in this field attest. Not since E. Newton Harvey's Bioluminescence in 1952 has there appeared a more comprehensive and critical stud...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Preface
• List of Contributors
• Contents
• Introduction
• Chemical Events Leading to Chemiluminescence of Lucigenine and Luminol
• The Use of Luminol as a Standard of Photon Emission
• The Preparation and Standardization by Different Methods of Liquid Light Sources
• Synthesis and Properties of Some Indole Derivatives Related to Cypridina Luciferin
• Chemiluminescence and Fluorescence of Cypridina Luciferin and of Some New Indole Compounds in Dimethylsulfoxide
• Chemiluminescence of Indole Derivatives
• Activity and Inhibition of Cypridina Luciferase: Quantitative Measurement; Analysis of Inhibition by Urea; and Some Effects of Sodium and Potassium Ions
• Chemistry of the Luciferases of Cypridina hilgendorfii and Apogon ellioti
• Molecular Mechanisms in Bacterial Bioluminescence: On Energy Storage Intermediates and the Role of Aldehyde in the Reaction
• Light - Initiated Bioluminescence
• Application of Luminescence in Aerospace Industry
• The Luminous Fungi
• The Apparent Phosphorescence of a Substance Extracted from the Mycelium of the Luminous Fungus, Omphalia flavida
• Purification and Properties of the Active Substance of Fungal Luminescence
• Some Notes on Semi-large-scale Cultivation of Luminous Fungi
• A Note on Stimulatives of Bacterial Luminescence in Mass Culture
• Excitation and Luminescence in Noctiluca miliaris
• Scintillons: The Biochemistry of Dinoflagellate Bioluminescence
• Crystal-like Particles in Luminous and Non-luminous Dinoflagellates
• Studies on the Bioluminescence System of the Sea Pansy, Renilla reniformis
• Bioluminescence Systems of the Peroxidase Type
• A Note on the Large Luminescent Earthworm, Octochaetus multiporus, of New Zealand
• Isolation of the Luciferin of the New Zealand Fresh-water Limpet, Latia neritoides Gray
• Quantitative Measurements of Luminescence
• Unit Activity in the Firefly Lantern
• Statistics of Photon Emission and Control Mechanisms in Bioluminescence
• Observations on the Biochemistry of Luminescence in the New Zealand Glowworm, Arachnocampa luminosa
• Partial Purification and Properties of the Chaetopterus Luminescence System
• Partial Purification of the Luminescence System of a Deep-sea Shrimp, Hoplophorus graeilorostris
• The Origin of Luciferin in the Luminous Ducts of Parapriaeanthus ransonneti, Pempheris klunzingeri, and Apogon ellioti
• On a Luminous Organ of the Australian Pine-cone Fish, Cleidopus gloria-maris De Vis
• On the Comparative Morphology of Some Luminous Organs
• Observations on Rod-like Contents in the Photogenic Tissue of PFaiasema seintillans through the Electron Microscope
• List of Abbreviations
• Indexes