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Edmund Newton Harvey (November 25, 1887 – July 21, 1959) was an American zoologist. [1] He was acknowledged as one of the leading authorities on bioluminescence. [2] He won the Rumford Prize in 1947 and was a member of the National Academy of Sciences, [3] the American Philosophical Society, [4] and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1929.
Vibrio harveyi is a Gram-negative, bioluminescent, marine bacterium in the genus Vibrio. V. harveyi is rod-shaped, motile (via polar flagella), facultatively anaerobic, halophilic, and competent for both fermentative and respiratory metabolism. It does not grow below 4 °C ( optimum growth: 30° to 35 °C). V.
Bioluminescence is the emission of light during a chemiluminescence reaction by living organisms. [1] ... Harvey notes that in 1753, ...
Early studies of the bioluminescence of Aequorea by E. Newton Harvey had noted that the bioluminescence appears as a ring around the bell, and occurs even in the absence of air. [19] This was remarkable because most bioluminescence reactions require oxygen, and led to the idea that the animals somehow store oxygen. [20]
E. Newton Harvey had noted the unusual yellow bioluminescence [5] occurring from the parapodia. There are very few known marine animals that exhibit yellow luminescence. [6] [7] Many species of plankton are known to display this property of bioluminescence. [8]
[2] It was named "harveyi" after American zoologist and leading bioluminescence authority Edmund Newton Harvey. [2] It was originally classified as a species of Kryptophanaron along with the Atlantic flashlightfish, but was later moved to its own genus. [2]
Bioluminescent bacteria are light-producing bacteria that are predominantly present in sea water, marine sediments, the surface of decomposing fish and in the gut of marine animals. While not as common, bacterial bioluminescence is also found in terrestrial and freshwater bacteria. [ 1 ]
It was first described by the American biologist John B. Buck in 1947 [1] and was named in honour of the American zoologist E. Newton Harvey, a leading authority on bioluminescence. [ 2 ] References