title: A study on bioluminescence and photoluminescence in the earthworm Eisenia lucens.
abstract: Eisenia lucens is an earthworm living in the organic soil layer of decomposing wood. When irritated, the worm expels coelomic fluid through pores in its body wall, exhibiting blue-green bioluminescence. The mechanism of the bioluminescence, which seems to be different from other bioluminescence systems of terrestrial animals, has been studied in this work. Many lines of evidence indicate that riboflavin stored in coelomycetes plays an important role in this glowing reaction.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, Masaryk University, Kamenice 753/5, Brno, CZ 62500, Czech Republic.
authors.forename: O
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Pes
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Midlik
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Schlaghamersky
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Zitnan
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Taborsky
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D049449:Luminescence; D008856:Microscopy, Fluorescence; D009835:Oligochaeta / Q000166:cytology / Q000502:physiology*; D012256:Riboflavin / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D012256:Riboflavin