Assertion: dinoflagellate's bioluminescence | /r/HasProperty | a defense mechanism
Facets:
value: for one dinoflagellate species
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
Source sentences:
text: Now, researchers reporting in Current Biology on June 17 have found that for one dinoflagellate species (Lingulodinium polyedra), this bioluminescence is also a defense mechanism that helps them ward off the copepod grazers that would like to eat them.
text: That bioluminescence, in addition to being a beautiful light phenomenon in the sea, is a defensive mechanism that some species of plankton use to ward off their enemies," said Andrew Prevett of the University of Gothenburg, Sweden.