Fluorescent Dive and WHY Do Corals Fluoresce

#fluorescence #coral #nightdive #mobygratis Some footage of fluorescent corals and anemones rom the Philippines, and a mini-lecture about the evolution of coral fluorescence. WHY did fluorescence evolve in cnidarians (corals and anemones). Filmed on scuba with a @OMSYSTEMCameras TG7, @ORCATORCHWorldwide video light and a @DJI Osmo4 in the Philippines. Papers mentioned: Alieva, N. O., Konzen, K. A., Field, S. F., Meleshkevitch, E. A., Hunt, M. E., Beltran-Ramirez, V., ... & Matz, M. V. (2008). Diversity and evolution of coral fluorescent proteins. PloS one, 3(7), e2680. https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0002680 Gong, S., Liang, J., Li, G., Xu, L., Tan, Y., Zheng, X., ... & Xia, X. (2024). Linking coral fluorescence phenotypes to thermal bleaching in the reef-building Galaxea fascicularis from the northern South China Sea. Marine Life Science & Technology, 6(1), 155-167. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s42995-023-00190-1 GFP Image: By Jawahar Swaminathan and MSD staff at the European Bioinformatics Institute - https://www.ebi.ac.uk/pdbe/static/entry/1ema_deposited_chain_front_image-800x800.png, displayed on https://www.ebi.ac.uk/pdbe/entry/pdb/1ema, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=6307286 Music by Mobygratis. Support the channel folks! Your Brain on Diving: https://www.amazon.com/Your-Brain-Diving-insights-underwater-ebook/dp/B0BNVXTJ4H/ Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/pacificklaus/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pacificklaus/ X: https://x.com/Pacificklaus Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SexDrugsAndScubaDiving