Surveying bioluminescent organism for creating new techniques

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 23405015
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Section: 海外学術
• Research Field: Biodiversity/Systematics
• Research Institution: National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
• Principal Investigator: OHMIYA Yoshihiro 国立研究開発法人産業技術総合研究所, バイオメディカル研究部門, 研究部門長 (20223951)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): MITANI Yasuo 国立研究開発法人・産業技術総合研究所, 生物プロセス研究部門 (10358103) ; FUTAHASHI Ryo 国立研究開発法人・産業技術総合研究所, 生物プロセス研究部門 (50549889)
• Project Period (FY): 2011-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 発光生物 / 光イメージング / ルシフェラーゼ / ルシフェリン / ホタル

Outline of Final Research Achievements

There are still unresolved bioluminescent phenomenon all over the world, these elucidation can establish new bioluminescence and fluorescence techniques. For creating further new bioluminescence and fluorescence techniques as a goal, we collected the light-emitting organisms all over the world. We were surveying of the light-emitting earthworms, Brittle star, bioluminescent snail Latia, luminescent beetles in Fiji Island, South America Brazil, Belgium, New Zealand, southern China, and Japan As a result, we had identified three luciferases from Fijian click beetle, Yunnan Shangri-La firefly and Toyama Lugworm. In addition, we estimated the systematic evolutional pathway of Brazilian click beetle.

Free Research Field

光生物学