Organisms belonging to all life kingdoms may have the natural capacity to fluoresce.
Autofluorescence events depend on the presence of natural biomolecules, namely …

From the mid-19th century until the 1980's, frogs and toads provided important research
models for many fundamental questions in visual neuroscience. In the present century, they …

Biofluorescence is the absorption of electromagnetic radiation (light) at one wavelength
followed by its reemission at a lower energy and longer wavelength by a living organism …

Biofluorescence is widespread in the natural world, but only recently discovered in terrestrial
vertebrates. Here, we report on the discovery of iridophore-based, neon-green flourescence …

Biofluorescence has been detected in several nocturnal-crepuscular organisms from
invertebrates to birds and mammals. Biofluorescence in mammals has been detected across …

Amphibians are ideal for studying visual system evolution because their biphasic (aquatic
and terrestrial) life history and ecological diversity expose them to a broad range of visual …

Fluorescence in marine animals has mainly been studied in Cnidaria but is found in many
different phyla such as Annelida, Crustacea, Mollusca, and Chordata. While many …

Examples of photoluminescence (PL) are being reported with increasing frequency in a
wide range of organisms from diverse ecosystems. However, the chemical basis of this PL …

Fluorescence, the optical phenomenon whereby short-wavelength light is absorbed and
emitted at longer wavelengths, has been widely described in aquatic habitats, in both …

Miniaturization has evolved repeatedly in frogs in the moist leaf litter environments of
rainforests worldwide. Miniaturized frogs are among the world's smallest vertebrates and …