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LUMINOUS CREATURES

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Acknowledgments

Prologue

PART ONE: GROPING IN THE DARK

1 Glows, Flashes, and Marvel-Mongers

2 The Age of Enlightenment

3 A Deeper Probing of Nature Aglow

PART TWO: THE LIGHTS BENEATH THE SURFACE

4 The Birth of Scientific Ocean Exploration

5 The Mystery of a Lit Underworld

6 Inside the Light-Producing Organs

PART THREE: OPENING UP NEW VISTAS OF RESEARCH

7 Paolo Panceri and the Italian Cohort

8 Raphaël Dubois and the Chemistry of Living Light

9 Bioluminescence Spreads Further Afield

PART FOUR: THE AMERICAN ASCENDANCY

10 E. Newton Harvey and the Princeton Laboratory

11 The Triumph of the Biochemists

12 Through a Glass, Brightly – William Beebe’s Bathysphere

PART FIVE: OFF CENTRE STAGE

13 The Peculiar Career of Yata Haneda

14 Circling the Luminaries

15 A Bioluminescence Expedition

PART SIX: THE LEAP TO CURRENT UNDERSTANDING

16 Probing Oceanic Bioluminescence

17 Understanding How Light Sources Are Controlled

18 Unravelling Molecular Mechanisms

Epilogue

Bibliography

Index