Noctiluca miliaris

Luminiferous animal organisms are well known. Examples include the small sea animal Noctiluca miliaris, the firefly Lampyris noctiluca and the lamp jellyfish Pelagia noctiluca. The amazing light emission produced by these species is due to luciferasc catalysts, whose coferment luciferin (molecular formula below) can regulate the bioluminescence processes by means of its action in redox and light transfer cycles. 

Noctiluca miliaris shown form both sides, N. COOH... 

W.M. Balch, F.T. Haxo (1984). Spectral properties of Noctiluca miliaris Suriray, a heterotrophic dinoflagellate. J. Plankton Res., 6, 515-525. 

Liu L, Hastings JW. Two different domains of the luciferase gene in the heterotrophic dinoflagellate Noctiluca miliaris occur as two separate genes in photosynthetic species. Proc Natl Acad Sci 2007 104 696-701. 

The manzamine alkaloids are characterized by a complex pentacyclic diamine linked to C-l of a B-carboline moiety. The first B-carboline compound (norharman and harman) was reported from a bioluminiscent marine dino-flagellate Noctiluca miliaris [31], followed by the discovery of the eudistomins from Eudistoma olivaceum [32, 33, 34], Their occurrence has been reported not only from sponges and tunicates, but also from the Bryozoan Costaticella hastata [35], and Cribricellina cribraria [36] and lately from the Cnidaria (Villagorgia rubra) exemplified by the Villagorgins [37]. 

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