The meteorologist Sakuhei Fujiwhara wrote " Atmospheric Light Phenomena " in 1933, but in it, he wrote that he did not know the cause of shiranui, and due to some who profited from delighting sightseers, he pointed out the possibility that they are from noctiluca.
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The area supports a diverse invertebrate fauna, which includes the nationally rare least minor moth, " Photedes captiuncula ", the nationally notable Durham argus butterfly, " Aricia artaxerxes salmacis ", and the common glow-worm, " Lampyris noctiluca ".
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Harvey notes that in 1753, J . Baker identified the flagellate " Noctiluca " " as a luminous animal " " just visible to the naked eye ", and in 1854 Johann Florian Heller ( 1813-1871 ) identified strands ( hyphae ) of fungi as the source of light in dead wood.
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It is white in the graphic because of the monochromatic sensor we used, and it can appear white to the eye because the rods in our eye ( used for night vision ) don't discriminate color . " In Shetland ( where generally caused by " Noctiluca scintillans " ), mareel has sometimes been described as being green, rather than the traditional blue or white milky seas effect seen by the rest of the world.
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Recently their lab has found that the luciferase gene in " Lingulodinium polyedrum " and other closely related species contains three homologous and contiguous repeated sequences in a kind of " three-ring circus with the same act in all three . " However, another luminescent, but heterotrophic, dinoflagellate, " Noctiluca scintillans ", has but a single protein, which appears to possess both catalytic and substrate binding properties in a single, rather than separate proteins.
