Bioluminescence in Dinoflagellates: A Test of the Burgular Alarm Hypothesis
-- Mark V. Abrahams and Linda D. Townsend, Ecology, Vol. 74, No. 1 (Jan., 1993), pp. 258-260

This "burglar alarm" hypothesis argues that dinoflagellates render themselves dangerous as prey upon attack because they generate a signal indentifying the location of food to individuals two trophic levels up the food chain.