These, Dr Mincer and Dr Amaral-Zettler found in the form of dinoflagellates, some of which like to snack on smaller creatures to supplement their photosynthesis.

明瑟及阿玛拉尔-特勒两位博士以甲藻的形式发现食草动物的存在, 一些甲藻喜欢吃小型生物作为他们光合作用的补充。

Just as a flashing burglar alarm alerts police to a thief, the dinoflagellates expose their attacker to its enemies.

就像闪烁的报器提醒察注意小偷一样，甲藻将攻击者暴露给敌人。

Bioluminescent tides like this are rare, but dinoflagellates are found in huge numbers all over the world.

像这样的生物发光潮汐很少见，在世界各地都发现大量甲藻。

In this case, a cuttlefish catches the shrimp, and the dinoflagellates don't need to be afraid anymore.

这样一来， 乌贼就抓到虾，甲藻就不用再害怕。

Left alone, dinoflagellates won't produce much light, but if something like an ocean wave, a current, or a human disturbs them, they will flash brightly.

甲藻独自生存时不会发出太多的光，受到海浪、洋流或人类等物质的干扰，它们就会发出明亮的光芒。

Imagine a shrimp comes along and starts feeding on dinoflagellates by filtering them out of the water.

想象一下，一只虾游过来，开始从水中过滤甲藻并以此为食。

90% Of all dinoflagellates are marine plankton, and when conditions are right in the sea, they bloom in enormous numbers.

90% 的甲藻都是海洋浮游生物，当海洋条件适宜时，它们就会大量繁殖。

If you're a single-celled organism like a dinoflagellate, you're at the bottom of the food chain, so avoiding getting eaten involves hard work every day.

你是像甲藻这样的单细胞生物，那么你就处于食物链的底端，因此为避免被吃掉， 你每天都需要付出艰苦的努力。

According to the Monterey Bay Aquarium, a mass bloom of dinoflagellates caused this bright light.

据蒙特利湾水族馆介绍，大量的甲藻繁殖导致这种明亮的光芒。

The researchers tinkered with the dinoflagellates internal biological clocks to rob them of their ability to glow during the experimental period In some they let the critters luminous normally And to some is normally luminousing cultures.

研究人员调整夜光虫内部的生物钟，剥夺它们在实验期间发光的能力。在一些样本中，他们让这些小生物正常发光。而在另一些通常能正常发光的培养物中也是这样操作的。

They constituted three quarters of the copepods diets By contrast in colonies where El Polyedra were able to glow normally the dinoflagellates formed only a quarter of the copepod diet.

它们构成桡足类饮食的四分之三。相比之下，在埃尔波拉多拉能够正常发光的群体中，夜光虫仅占桡足类饮食的四分之一。

Meanwhile, in the third set of colonies those in which the dinoflagellates had been primed to the presence of copepods by exposure to copepodimite.

同时，在第三组殖民地中，那些已经被暴露于桡足类刺激素而预适应桡足类存在的夜光虫。

Dinoflagellates are one of the biggest single-celled organisms known to man.

甲藻是人类已知的最大的单细胞生物之一。