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Loss of bioluminescence inAnomalops katoptron due to starvation

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After 3 weeks of starvation the bacterial light-organs of the bioluminescent shallow-water fishAnomalops katoptron cease to produce light. Because of a reduction of the number of symbionts in the cells of the light organ, it is concluded that the fish supplies its luminescent bacteria with nutrients out of its own metabolism. As a result of starving the fish, the luminescent bacteria decrease in number and finally cease to emit light.

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  1. Department of Biological Sciences, University of Waikato, Hamilton, (New Zealand)

    V. B. Meyer-Rochow

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Supported by a Queen Elizabeth II Fellowship in Marine Science, and carried out during the 1975 ‘Alpha Helix’ South East Asia Bioluminescence Expedition.

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Meyer-Rochow, V.B. Loss of bioluminescence inAnomalops katoptron due to starvation. Experientia 32, 1175–1176 (1976). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01927610

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