A Little Vitamin B Is All That Makes This Worm Glow Bright Green

This might look like the resultant role of some wild nuclear chance event , but in fact this dirt ball is perfectly hefty . It just happens to radiate bright green when expose to certain wavelengths of light .

A team of researchers from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla , Californiahas discoveredthat it ’s a humble splash of vitamin B — vitamin B2 to be precise — which do the lambskin thermionic tube worm to glow .

Interestingly , if you prod and poke the brute , it spits out puffs of mucous secretion that glow vivid blue luminance , too — but it ’s not cleared yet what creates that particular chromaticity . That slice of enquiry is , apparently , next on the list . [ Physiological and Biochemical ZoologyviaNew Scientist ]

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