Isolation and characterization of novel Chlamydomonas mutants that display phototaxis but not photophobic response.

doi:10.1002/(SICI)1097-0169(1998)41:4<353::AID-CM7>3.0.CO;2-0

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Isolation and characterization of novel Chlamydomonas mutants that display phototaxis but not photophobic response.

Cell motility and the cytoskeleton - 1 Jan 1998

Matsuda A, Yoshimura K, Sineshchekov O A, Hirono M, Kamiya R

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The unicellular green alga Chlamydomonas displays two distinct kinds of behavioral response to light: phototaxis, in which cells swim toward or away from the light source under constant illumination; and photophobic responses (also called stop responses or photoshock responses), in which cells tr...

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Animals
Calcium
Cell Membrane
Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
Mutation
Photic Stimulation

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