Frontmatter -- Preface -- List of Contributors -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chemical Events Leading to Chemiluminescence of Lucigenine and Luminol -- The Use of Luminol as a Standard of Photon Emission -- The Preparation and Standardization by Different Methods of Liquid Light Sources -- Synthesis and Properties of Some Indole Derivatives Related to Cypridina Luciferin -- Chemiluminescence and Fluorescence of Cypridina Luciferin and of Some New Indole Compounds in Dimethylsulfoxide -- Chemiluminescence of Indole Derivatives -- Activity and Inhibition of Cypridina Luciferase: Quantitative Measurement; Analysis of Inhibition by Urea; and Some Effects of Sodium and Potassium Ions -- Chemistry of the Luciferases of Cypridina hilgendorfii and Apogon ellioti -- Molecular Mechanisms in Bacterial Bioluminescence: On Energy Storage Intermediates and the Role of Aldehyde in the Reaction -- Light - Initiated Bioluminescence -- Application of Luminescence in Aerospace Industry -- The Luminous Fungi -- The Apparent Phosphorescence of a Substance Extracted from the Mycelium of the Luminous Fungus, Omphalia flavida -- Purification and Properties of the Active Substance of Fungal Luminescence -- Some Notes on Semi-large-scale Cultivation of Luminous Fungi -- A Note on Stimulatives of Bacterial Luminescence in Mass Culture -- Excitation and Luminescence in Noctiluca miliaris -- Scintillons: The Biochemistry of Dinoflagellate Bioluminescence -- Crystal-like Particles in Luminous and Non-luminous Dinoflagellates -- Studies on the Bioluminescence System of the Sea Pansy, Renilla reniformis -- Bioluminescence Systems of the Peroxidase Type -- A Note on the Large Luminescent Earthworm, Octochaetus multiporus, of New Zealand -- Isolation of the Luciferin of the New Zealand Fresh-water Limpet, Latia neritoides Gray -- Quantitative Measurements of Luminescence -- Unit Activity in the Firefly Lantern -- Statistics of Photon Emission and Control Mechanisms in Bioluminescence -- Observations on the Biochemistry of Luminescence in the New Zealand Glowworm, Arachnocampa luminosa -- Partial Purification and Properties of the Chaetopterus Luminescence System -- Partial Purification of the Luminescence System of a Deep-sea Shrimp, Hoplophorus graeilorostris -- The Origin of Luciferin in the Luminous Ducts of Parapriaeanthus ransonneti, Pempheris klunzingeri, and Apogon ellioti -- On a Luminous Organ of the Australian Pine-cone Fish, Cleidopus gloria-maris De Vis -- On the Comparative Morphology of Some Luminous Organs -- Observations on Rod-like Contents in the Photogenic Tissue of PFaiasema seintillans through the Electron Microscope -- List of Abbreviations -- Indexes

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The study of bioluminescence-visible light emitted by living organisms-is truly in progress, as these 35 papers contributed by 49 of the leading scientists active in this field attest. Not since E. Newton Harvey's Bioluminescence in 1952 has there appeared a more comprehensive and critical study. The approaches to the subject range from the purely chemical and physical to the purely biological. There are magnificent electron micrographs and some color plates.Originally published in 1966.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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