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Bioluminescent flashes drive nighttime schooling behavior and synchronized swimming dynamics in flashlight fish
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2019
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Source: PLoS ONE 14(8): e0219852
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Journal Title:PLoS ONE
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Description:Schooling fishes, like flocking birds and swarming insects, display remarkable behavioral coordination. While over 25% of fish species exhibit schooling behavior, nighttime schooling has rarely been observed or reported. This is due to vision being the primary modality for schooling, which is corroborated by the fact that most fish schools disperse at critically low light levels. Here we report on a large aggregation of the bioluminescent flashlight fish Anomalops katoptron that exhibited nighttime schooling behavior during multiple moon phases, including the new moon. Data were recorded with a suite of low-light imaging devices, including a high-speed, high-resolution scientific complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (sCMOS) camera.
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Source:PLoS ONE 14(8): e0219852
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