448 



Narragansett Bay, 399 



Nemertinae, 17 



Neuro-effector, 315 



Neurophotocyte, 324 



New Britain, 361 



New Guinea, 335, 344, 361, 371 



New Jersey, 399 



New Zealand, 6, 333, 347, 407 



Nidulariineae, 342, 343 



Nippon Sea, 354 



N-methylalloxazine, 242 



North Borneo, 338-340, 344, 369 



North CaroUna, 333 



Norway, 390, 399 



Nudibranchia, 9, 17 



Oak Ridge, 199, 200, 207, 238 



Octopoda, 3 



Oegopsida, 17 



Offats Bayou, 399 



Ohgaki, 337 



Oiso, 348 



Okinawa, 359, 360 



Ohgochaeta, 17, 348, 349 



Ophiuroidea, 19 



Opisthobranchiata, 349 



Orthoptera, 18 



Osaka, 338 



Oslofjord, 392, 399 



Ostracoda, 17, 356 



Otaro, 346 



Oxygen 



detection bv luminous bacteria, 



78-79 ' 

 effect on 



absorption spectra, 140-145 

 chemiluminescence intensity, 



87-91 

 luciferin fluorescence, 147-149 

 in chemiluminescence, 77-81, 90- 



91 

 measurement by luminol, 97 

 relation to firefly flash, 182-186, 

 195-196, 310, 325, 329-331 

 Oxygen requirement, in biolumines- 

 cence, 9, 12, 16-21, 127, 130, 

 210 

 Oxygen tension, effect on 



SUBJECT INDEX 



bact. luminescence in vitro, 225 

 firefly luminescence, 182-186 

 respiration of bact. extracts, 225 



Oxynonylhydroperoxide, 236 



Ovsters, 348 



Palao, 335, 337, 339, 340-344, 347, 



350, 358, 360, 361, 369 

 Palmitic aldehyde (KCF), 269 

 effect on bact. luminescence in 

 vitro, 216-218 

 Paramagnetic molecules, and quench- 

 ing, 37 

 Pasania tree, 365 

 Pelecypoda, 349, 350 

 Pennatulacea, 16 

 Peridiniales, 387 



Peroxyaldehydes, in bact. lumines- 

 cence in vitro, 234-238 

 Peru, 402 

 pH, effect on 



bacterial luminescence in vitro, 



220, 259 

 Cijpridina luciferin, 140-146 

 firefly luciferin, 200-202 

 firefly luciferin fluorescence, 201 

 firefly luminescence, 166 

 luminous bacteria, 336 

 Phallales, 3 

 Phengodidae, 19 

 Pheophytin, 36 

 Phihppines, 347 

 Phosphorescence 



distinction from fluorescence, 44— 



45 

 heavy atom effects, 36-37 

 intrinsic quantum yield, 29 

 lifetime, 44-45 



low temperature spectrum, 28 

 paramagnetic atom effects, 36-37 

 relation to viscosity, 28 

 Photochemical inactivation 



of bacterial luminescence, 112- 



114 

 of luminescence, 9, 10, 16-21, 

 111-114, 309-310, 325, 371, 

 416-419 



