a luminescent body present in the cytoplasm of some dinoflagellates
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scintillon
The same channel likely mediates the action potential that communicates the signal along the tonoplast to the scintillon.
Juan D Rodriguez, Saddef Haq, Tsvetan Bachvaroff, Kristine F Nowak, Scott J Nowak,Deri Morgan, Vladimir V Cherny, Maredith M Sapp, Steven Bernstein, Andrew Bolt, ThomasE DeCoursey, Allen R Place, Susan M E Smith 2017, 'Identification of a vacuolar proton channel that triggers the bioluminescent flashin dinoflagellates.', PLoS ONEhttp://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5298346?pdf=render. Retrieved from PLOS CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)