Journal articleAuthors : Mizuno, Gaku (2021)
The lantern shark genus Etmopterus is a group of deep-sea bioluminescent fishes. Theyemit blue light mainly from the ventral body surface, and the primary biological functionis considered to be for camouflage by counterillumination. In this study, we detected bothcoelenterazine and coelenterazine-specific luciferase activity in the ventral photophoretissues. The results suggested that bioluminescence in lantern sharks is produced usingcoelenterazine as the substrate for the ... 
