Bioluminescent flashes drive nighttime schooling behavior and synchronized swimming dynamics in flashlight fish

• David F. Gruber ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: David.Gruber@Baruch.cuny.edu

  Affiliations Department of Natural Sciences, City University of New York, Baruch College, New York, New York, United States of America, PhD Program in Biology, The Graduate Center, City University of New York, New York, New York, United States of America, Sackler Institute for Comparative Genomics, American Museum of Natural History, New York, New York, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9041-2911

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• Brennan T. Phillips,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Ocean Engineering, University of Rhode Island, Narragansett, Rhode Island, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4361-6529

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• Rory O’Brien,

  Roles Formal analysis

  Affiliation Department of Cellular and Molecular Physiology, The John B. Pierce Laboratory, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

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• Vivek Boominathan,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Rice University, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Houston, Texas, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4875-3135

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• Ashok Veeraraghavan,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Rice University, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Houston, Texas, United States of America

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• Ganesh Vasan,

  Roles Formal analysis, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Cellular and Molecular Physiology, The John B. Pierce Laboratory, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

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• Peter O’Brien,

  Roles Formal analysis

  Affiliation Department of Cellular and Molecular Physiology, The John B. Pierce Laboratory, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

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• Vincent A. Pieribone,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Cellular and Molecular Physiology, The John B. Pierce Laboratory, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

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• John S. Sparks

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Sackler Institute for Comparative Genomics, American Museum of Natural History, New York, New York, United States of America, Department of Ichthyology, Division of Vertebrate Zoology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, New York, United States of America

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