Diversity and function of fluorescent molecules in marine organisms

• DOI: 10.32942/x2cw2r
• Publication Date: 2023-09-05T06:03:59Z
• Authors: Lars Poding; Peter Jägers; Mareike Huhn; Stefan Herlitze
• Keywords: Aposematism

Fluorescence in marine organisms has mainly been studied corals but is found many different phyla such as Annelida, Crustacea, Mollusca, and Chordata. While fluorescent proteins molecules have identified, very little information available about the biological function of fluorescence. In this review, we focus on describing occurrence fluorescence animals behavioural physiological functions based experimental approaches. These range from prey symbiont attraction, photoprotection, photoenhancement, stress mitigation, mimicry, aposematism to inter- intraspecific communication. We provide a comprehensive list taxa that utilize fluorescence, including demonstrated effects or responses. On one hand, review describes numerous known anthozoans their underlying molecular mechanisms detail. other it highlights which should be further regarding suggest an increase research effort field could contribute understanding capacity mitigating negative climate change.