Definition of Photocyte. Meaning of Photocyte. Synonyms of Photocyte

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Meaning of Photocyte from wikipedia

- A photocyte is a cell that specializes in catalyzing enzymes to produce light (bioluminescence). Photocytes typically occur in select layers of epithelial...
- of prey, from specialized mitochondrial cells in the organism called photocytes ("light producing" cells), or, similarly, ****ociated with symbiotic bacteria...
- begins with a linear polarization due to inhomogeneities inside aligned photocytes, and it picks up circular polarization while p****ing through linearly...
- lanternfish is mechanistically tuned to project the biochemical emission in photocytes for counterillumination". Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications...
- vacuoles (internal compartments), germ cells that produce eggs or sperm, and photocytes that produce bioluminescence. The side furthest from the organ is covered...
- "Missing link in firefly bioluminescence revealed: NO regulation of photocyte respiration". BioEssays. 23 (11): 992–995. doi:10.1002/bies.1144. PMID 11746215...
- bioluminesce. The light is generated by photop****s that consist of a single photocyte within a cup-shaped pigmented cell, with lens cells on the surface. The...
- proliferation, followed by gradual degeneration of the muscle tissue. Its photocytes have a uniform cytoplasm with small mitochondria, granular aggregates...
- laterally, with one side being about three times as broad as the other. The photocytes, which run the length of the comb rows and surround the statocyst, are...
- luciferase-luciferin reaction, he showed that water could produce light from dried photocytes and that light could be produced even in the absence of oxygen. Later...