© 2004 by The Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology
The Luminous World of John and Elisabeth Buck1
1 Marine Science Institute, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California 93106-6150
2 Department of Biology, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Maryland 21250
Highlights of the research careers of John and Elisabeth Buck are presented, illustrating their importance as investigators of firefly biology including taxonomy, morphology, physiology and behavior, and as catalysts of collegial exchanges advancing progress among investigators of bioluminescence in its widest aspects over the past 50 years.