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    rotation direction and reenter the light. The second type of phototaxis is true phototaxis, which is a directed movement up a gradient to an increasing...
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  • a light source. This reaction or behavior is called positive phototaxis since phototaxis refers to a response to light and the organism is moving towards...
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    organism to either swim towards the light (positive phototaxis), or away from it (negative phototaxis). A related response ("photoshock" or photophobic...
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    calcium-dependent control in ptx1 mutants results in a phototaxis defect. The direction of phototaxis in Chlamydomonas depends on the light intensity, but...
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  • present in juvenile fish such as sockeye salmon smolts. Kinesis (biology) Phototaxis Phototropism Häder, D.-P.; Lebert, M. (2001). Photomovement. Elsevier...
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    appear to circle artificial lights. The reason for this behavior (positive phototaxis) is currently unknown. One hypothesis is called celestial or transverse...
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    rotation direction and reenter the light. The second type of phototaxis is true phototaxis, which is a directed movement up a gradient to an increasing...
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    Sepioteuthis lessoniana, commonly known as the bigfin reef squid, tiger squid, glitter squid or oval squid, is a species of loliginid squid. It is one...
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    in positive phototaxis (in planula larvae of hydrozoans), as well as in avoiding harmful amounts of UV radiation via negative phototaxis. Directional...
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  • serve as sensory photoreceptors in unicellular green algae, controlling phototaxis: movement in response to light. Expressed in cells of other organisms...
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    the Euglena to find the light and move toward it (a process known as phototaxis). Euglena lacks a cell wall. Instead, it has a pellicle made up of a protein...
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    slow rate of movement. The three-wheeled tortoise robots were capable of phototaxis, by which they could find their way to a recharging station when they...
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    their environment. There are three types of photomovement: photokinesis, phototaxis and photophobic responses. Photokinetic microorganisms modulate their...
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    microorganisms rely upon directed motility (taxis), such as chemotaxis or phototaxis, to optimally navigate through complex environments or colonise host tissues...
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    a temperature gradient (see thermotaxis) along a light gradient (see phototaxis) along a magnetic field line (see magnetotaxis) along an electric field...
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  • mediate light responses as varied as visual perception, phototropism and phototaxis, as well as responses to light-dark cycles such as circadian rhythm and...
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    Electrotaxis(electric current) Gravitaxis (gravity) Magnetotaxis (magnetic field) Phototaxis (light) Rheotaxis (fluid flow) Thermotaxis (temperature) Kinesis Kinesis...
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    adaptations. Many flagellates and probably all motile algae exhibit a positive phototaxis (i.e. they swim or glide toward a source of light). For this purpose,...
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    gravitaxis here is countered by phototaxis, which makes the larvae swimming up to the light coming from the surface. Phototaxis is mediated by the rhabdomeric...
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  • minimalistic and constructive way, from simple reactive behaviours (like phototaxis) through the simplest vehicles, to the formation of concepts, spatial...
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  • 2015 by Minority Records. Stevens has also produced records for Lao Che, Phototaxis, Paristetris, Blubalu, Para, Ofrin and Flip Top Box, among others. In...
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  • Oleophobicity the property of oil rejection Photophobia (biology) a negative phototaxis or phototropism response, or a tendency to stay out of the light Ultrahydrophobicity...
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    eye was ablated and the larvae was not phototactic, anymore. However phototaxis in the nectochaete larva of Platynereis dumerilii is not mediated by the...
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    (1991). "Influences of wavelength and intensity on hatchling sea turtle phototaxis: implications for sea-finding behavior". Copeia. 1991 (4). American Society...
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  • photophobia, photophone, photophore, photopic, photoptarmosis, photosynthesis, phototaxis, phototherapy, phototroph, telephoto phrag- (ΦΡΑΓ) fence Greek φράσσειν...
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  • photoreceptor activity. Is involved in several processes, including negative phototaxis, phototransduction, and response to UV light. Many organisms have photosensitive...
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  • bottle in search of food and are then unable to escape because their phototaxis behavior leads them anywhere in the bottle except to the darker top where...
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    certain stimuli in behaviours called taxes: these include chemotaxis, phototaxis, energy taxis, and magnetotaxis. In one peculiar group, the myxobacteria...
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    Electrotaxis(electric current) Gravitaxis (gravity) Magnetotaxis (magnetic field) Phototaxis (light) Rheotaxis (fluid flow) Thermotaxis (temperature) Kinesis Kinesis...
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    exposed to localized beams of light moved towards the light, or expressed phototaxis, and increased their photosynthetic yield, which is necessary for survival...
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