biofluoresce
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Verb
[edit]biofluoresce (third-person singular simple present biofluoresces, present participle biofluorescing, simple past and past participle biofluoresced)
- To exhibit biofluorescence
- 2015 November 12, “Adaptive Evolution of Eel Fluorescent Proteins from Fatty Acid Binding Proteins Produces Bright Fluorescence in the Marine Environment”, in PLOS ONE[1], :
- Marine organisms biofluoresce by absorbing the dominant blue light, and reemitting it at a longer, lower energy wavelength, visually resulting in green, orange, and red fluorescence.