Mitochondria are specifically vulnerable to 420nm light in drosophila which undermines their function and is associated with reduced fly mobility
Fig 1
Shows the 1cm cuvette sample transmission spectrum (black line) from two separate measurements of mitochondrial transmission taken from extract of mouse liver made using a deuterium and quartz-halogen lamp.
The longer wavelength spectrum has been aligned in transmission with the UV measurement to account for the particulate settling in the sample. The dashed red line shows a simple wavelength power-law scattering model that can be used to correct the spectrum for this absorption-band free spectral component.