City University of New York (CUNY) CUNY Academic Works Publications and Research Baruch College 2018 Luciferin production and luciferase transcription in the bioluminescent copepod Metridia lucens Michael Tessler American Museum of Natural History Jean P. Gaffney CUNY Bernard M Baruch College Jason M. Crawford Yale University Eric Trautman Yale University Nehaben A. Gujarati CUNY Bernard M Baruch College See next page for additional authors How does access to this work benefit ou?y Let us know! More information about this work at: https://academicworks.cuny.edu/bb_pubs/1104 Discover additional works at: https://academicworks.cuny.edu This work is made publicly available by the City University of New York (CUNY). Contact:
[email protected] Authors Michael Tessler, Jean P. Gaffney, Jason M. Crawford, Eric Trautman, Nehaben A. Gujarati, Philip Alatalo, Vincent A. Pierbone, and David F. Gruber This article is available at CUNY Academic Works: https://academicworks.cuny.edu/bb_pubs/1104 Luciferin production and luciferase transcription in the bioluminescent copepod Metridia lucens Michael Tessler1, Jean P. Gaffney2,3, Jason M. Crawford4, Eric Trautman4, Nehaben A. Gujarati2, Philip Alatalo5, Vincent A. Pieribone6 and David F. Gruber2,3 1 Sackler Institute for Comparative Genomics, American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY, USA 2 Department of Natural Sciences, City University of New York, Bernard M. Baruch College, New York, NY, United States of America 3 Biology, City University of New York, Graduate School and University Center, New York, NY, United States of America 4 Department of Chemistry, Yale University, New Haven, CT, United States of America 5 Biology Department, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States of America 6 Cellular and Molecular Physiology, Yale University, New Haven, CT, United States of America ABSTRACT Bioluminescent copepods are often the most abundant marine zooplankton and play critical roles in oceanic food webs.