>a lot of people think about bioluminescence in these tropical regions, but we have it right up here in this very diverse and rich environment
non tropical, colder in winter than Seattle, warmer in summer, the waters of New England have a fair amount of bioluminescence. you can see it brushing your hand through the water, at the tips of oars, etc (only in the dark)
unlike the dinoflagellates in this video (which are eukaryotes she calls algae, not sure if algae have flagella? looked it up "dinoflagellates are not classified as plants; they are unicellular protists that can exhibit both plant-like and animal-like characteristics. Some dinoflagellates are photosynthetic, using sunlight to produce energy, while others are heterotrophic, consuming other organisms for nutrients.") from somebody whoi oughta know I was told for the east coast it's ctenaphores (the c is cilent) the largest mini creatures that use cilia to move. just looking on wikipedia, apparently to cope with feeding themselves they also eat copepods which can also be bioluminescent
"Algae" is a term that is used for any living beings that have chloroplasts, thus they are able to capture solar light and produce free oxygen, except for the originally terrestrial plants (which descend from a certain group of green algae).
Most unicellular algae have flagella.
By phylogeny, there are several separate kinds of algae, which are not closely related and which have appeared as a consequence of separate symbiosis events.
After diatoms, dinoflagellates are among the most abundant unicellular algae. The chloroplasts of both diatoms and dinoflagellates have their origin in red algae that had been incorporated as intracellular symbionts in a distant past.
non tropical, colder in winter than Seattle, warmer in summer, the waters of New England have a fair amount of bioluminescence. you can see it brushing your hand through the water, at the tips of oars, etc (only in the dark)
unlike the dinoflagellates in this video (which are eukaryotes she calls algae, not sure if algae have flagella? looked it up "dinoflagellates are not classified as plants; they are unicellular protists that can exhibit both plant-like and animal-like characteristics. Some dinoflagellates are photosynthetic, using sunlight to produce energy, while others are heterotrophic, consuming other organisms for nutrients.") from somebody whoi oughta know I was told for the east coast it's ctenaphores (the c is cilent) the largest mini creatures that use cilia to move. just looking on wikipedia, apparently to cope with feeding themselves they also eat copepods which can also be bioluminescent
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ctenophora https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copepod