An unusual species of lucent invertebrates has been found in the Red Sea.

      

      Its fluorescence genes can help physicians study secrets of biology, and prompt zoologists in cataloguing the variety of the underwater world.

Scientists from the Lomonosov Moscow State University and their foreign colleagues have found unusual polyps, which generate green luminescence to attract and catch other invertebrates in the Red Sea.

      

      In recent years scientists have generated a few transgene kinds of animals with inset Green Fluorescent Protein jellyfish gene, which makes them to glow green light at night, under ultraviolet radiation and in the course of certain processes in the organism.

      

      This gene turned to be so important for science, that the Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded for its discovery in 2008, and today scientists are actively looking for other types of lucent proteins, which can help us get closer to the "dark" secrets of molecular and cellular biology.