Light-induced behavioral responses ('phototaxis') in prokaryotes

Photosynthesis Research

Volumn 76, Issue 1-3, 2003, Pages 145-155

  Armitage, Judith P ^a   Hellingwerf, Klaas J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

A. Grossman; Bacteriophytochrome; C. Ehrenberg; C.E. Bauer; Chemotaxis; Cyanobacteria; H. Gest; J. Armitage; J. Spudich; K. Hellingwerf; Photoactive yellow protein; Photoreceptor; Phototaxis; Purple bacteria; R. Clayton; Sensory rhodopsin; T. Engelmann

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CYANOBACTERIA; PROKARYOTA; PROTEOBACTERIA; RHODOBACTER; RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES; SYNECHOCYSTIS; SYNECHOCYSTIS SP.;

EID: 0042360164     PISSN: 01668595     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1024974111818     Document Type: Short Survey

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