as was revealed in October 1999 with a report that the Discosoma sp. mushroom anemone harbored a fluorescent protein homolog, commonly known as DsRed, emitting in the orange-red region (583 nm ...

Obtaining coral from a friend's 100-gallon aquarium in a small apartment in Moscow, Lukyanov purified and then cloned the fluorescent protein from a species of Discosoma coral, the first red ...