Putative graviperception mechanisms of protists

Advances in Space Research

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 877-882

  Block, I ^a   Freiberger, N ^a   Gavrilova, O ^a,b   Hemmersbach, R ^a  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^b N N BLOKHIN NATIONAL MEDICAL RESEARCH CENTER OF ONCOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CELL ORGANELLE; CILIATE; COLD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; FLIGHT EXPERIMENT; LOCOMOTION; MANNED; MOTOR ACTIVITY; ORIENTATION; PARAMECIUM; PERCEPTION; PHYSARUM; PHYSIOLOGY; SHORT DURATION; SPACE FLIGHT; STS-84 SHUTTLE PROJECT; SWIMMING; TETRAHYMENA; ULTRASTRUCTURE; VISCOSITY; WEIGHTLESSNESS;

FLIGHT EXPERIMENT; MANNED; SHORT DURATION; STS-84 SHUTTLE PROJECT;

ANIMALS; CILIOPHORA; COLD; CULTURE MEDIA; GRAVITY PERCEPTION; LOCOMOTION; MOTOR ACTIVITY; ORGANELLES; ORIENTATION; PARAMECIUM; PHYSARUM; SPACE FLIGHT; SWIMMING; TETRAHYMENA; VISCOSITY; WEIGHTLESSNESS;

EID: 0033291083     PISSN: 02731177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0273-1177(99)00969-2     Document Type: Article

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