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Cover: Predation attempt of a dusky cardinalfish, Phaeoptyx pigmenteria, on the luminescent ostracod Photeros annecohenae. The ostracod was expectorated, and is seen swimming away unharmed at the bottom of the luminescent cloud. Male P. annecohenae also use luminescence for highly complex courtship displays, and Rivers and Morin (pp. 2860−2868) discuss the relative costs of the mating and defensive displays. The image was taken using a specially built ÔcolourÕ-intensified camera, where light is split into two streams for two different image intensifiers, one sensitive to infrared to illuminate the organisms without detection, and the other to blue to simultaneously capture luminescence. Photo © Martin Dohrn, Ammonite Films. - PDF Icon PDF LinkTable of contents
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