Frogs "epi-fluores"

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Frogs "epi-fluores"

#1 Post by microb » Thu Jun 04, 2020 10:55 pm

https://www.wired.com/story/amphibians-glow

"This kind of biofluorescence only happens when blue light hits the amphibian, whose skin—and bones, in the case of the marbled salamander—absorb that wavelength and emit a different wavelength, usually an electric green. (This is not the same as bioluminescence, in which an animal like a deep-sea anglerfish either produces its own light through chemical processes or with the help of a glowing symbiotic bacteria that lives in its body.) To get these images, the researchers flooded the amphibians with blue light and photographed them with a special filter that only allowed the fluorescent light from the animal to hit the camera."

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Re: Frogs "epi-fluores"

#2 Post by wstenberg » Sat Feb 20, 2021 6:14 am

But where can you find a marbled salamander?
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