Image of the Day: Glowing Eel
This 2011 photograph of a false moray eel (family Chlopsidae; lower right) surrounded by fluorescent corals sparked a series of expeditions to study biofluorescent eels.
JIM HELLEMN, GRUBER ET AL.
(See “Adaptive evolution of eel fluorescent proteins from fatty acid binding proteins produces bright fluorescence in the marine environment,” PLOS ONE, 2015.)
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