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light in the isolated system would be proportional to the amount of 

 luciferin present, analogous to the situation in Cypridiiia (Chase, 

 1948) and the firefly (McElroy, 1951). This has been found to be 

 the case for the long-chain aldehyde in bacterial luminescence. 



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