It might seem that it is the water itself that is glowing. But instead, the glow is caused by millions of tiny organisms called dinoflagellates that live in the water and sometimes make it glow.

Single-cell algae called dinoflagellates are almost always behind this kind of surface luminescence. The species is notorious for forming some of the most widespread bioluminescent algal blooms ...

In the tropics, hermatypic, or reef building corals, are able to grow and secrete their calcium carbonate skeleton with the aid of zooxanthellae, a group of single-celled dinoflagellates that live ...

Ishida, K. & Green, B. R. Second-and third-hand chloroplasts in dinoflagellates: Phylogeny of oxygen-evolving enhancer 1 (PsbO) protein reveals replacement of a nuclear-encoded plastid gene by ...

While most zooplankton are ‘heterotrophs’ – that is they obtain their energy from consuming organic compounds, such as algae or other zooplankton - some zooplankton, such as the dinoflagellates, may ...