Marine fishes exhibit exceptional variation in biofluorescent emission spectra

• Emily M. Carr ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: ecarr@amnh.org

  ¶These authors contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations Division of Vertebrate Zoology, Department of Ichthyology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, New York, United States of America, Richard Gilder Graduate School, American Museum of Natural History, New York, New York, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7985-863X

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• Mason A. Thurman ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶MAT, RPM, TSS and JSS also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina, United States of America

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• Rene P. Martin ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  ¶MAT, RPM, TSS and JSS also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations Division of Vertebrate Zoology, Department of Ichthyology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, New York, United States of America, School of Natural Resources, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska, United States of America

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• Tate S. Sparks ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation

  ¶MAT, RPM, TSS and JSS also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Rutgers, School of Engineering, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States of America

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• John S. Sparks

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  ¶MAT, RPM, TSS and JSS also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations Division of Vertebrate Zoology, Department of Ichthyology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, New York, United States of America, Richard Gilder Graduate School, American Museum of Natural History, New York, New York, United States of America

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