Wow, sounds very complicated. I just had tought of the bacterial Lux-operon, where AB is the luciferase. And everything is in place in one cluster, perfectly compact.
Yeah, I read about retroviruses and retroelements. If there once was a luciferase within a retroelement, that would have given several copies of it - as it is nowadays...
Maybe, just maybe, this is the way to find the luciferin? Maybe it got also duplicated many times. But very probably it has many genes duplicated which do not play a role in bioluminescence...
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