Why this is interesting is because in the past decade we have found that this is not just some anomaly of this ridiculous, glow-in-the-dark bacterium that lives in the ocean -- all bacteria have systems like this.
这个发现之所以有趣，是因为在过去十年间 我们发现这种现象， 不只局限在这种住在大海中，古怪的、会在黑暗中发光的细菌， 而是所有的细菌都有类似的系统。