Action Spectrum for Sporulation and Photoavoidance in the Plasmodium of Physarum polycephalum, as Modified Differentially by Temperature and Starvation

Photochemistry and Photobiology

Volumn 64, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 859-862

  Nakagaki, Toshiyuki ^a   Umemura, Shoji ^a   Kakiuchi, Yasutaka ^a   Ueda, Tetsuo ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHONDROMYCES; PHYSARUM; PHYSARUM POLYCEPHALUM;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; INFRARED RADIATION; NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; PHYSARUM POLYCEPHALUM; PHYSIOLOGY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; STARVATION; TEMPERATURE; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; ULTRAVIOLET SPECTROPHOTOMETRY;

ANIMALS; INFRARED RAYS; PHOTOBIOLOGY; PHYSARUM POLYCEPHALUM; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, ULTRAVIOLET; SPECTROSCOPY, NEAR-INFRARED; STARVATION; TEMPERATURE; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

EID: 0030293946     PISSN: 00318655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-1097.1996.tb01847.x     Document Type: Article

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