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2006, Oceanography 19(2):155–157, http://dx.doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2006.86
BOOK REVIEW | Aglow in the Dark:
The Revolutionary Science of Biofluorescence
Book Information | Reviewer | First Paragraph | Full Review | Citation
Book Information
Aglow in the Dark: The Revolutionary Science of Biofluorescence
By Vincent Pieribone and David F. Gruber, Harvard University Press, 2006, 263 pages,
ISBN 0674019210, Hardcover, $24.95 US
Reviewer
Mikhail V. Matz | Whitney Laboratory for Marine Bioscience, University of Florida, St. Augustine, FL, USA
First Paragraph
Pieribone and Gruber's book is not as much about science itself as about careers in science and the way discoveries are made. One-third of the book (the first four of the twelve chapters) is devoted to discoveries in bioluminescence. The next six chapters (five to ten) discuss fluorescence (in particular, fluorescence determined by proteins related to the Green Fluorescent Protein [GFP]). The last two chapters are about neuroscience and the ways GFP-derived fluorescence can help it.
Full Review
Citation
Matz, M.V. 2006. Review of Aglow in the Dark: The Revolutionary Science of Biofluorescence, by V. Pieribone and D.F. Gruber. Oceanography 19(2):155–157, http://dx.doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2006.86.