Photoactivated Adenylyl Cyclase Controls Phototaxis in the Flagellate Euglena gracilis

Plant Physiology

Volumn 133, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 1517-1521

  Ntefidou, Maria ^a   Iseki, Mineo ^b,c   Watanabe, Masakatsu ^b,d   Lebert, Michael ^a   Häder, Donat Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR BASIC BIOLOGY   (Japan)

^c JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^d GRADUATE UNIVERSITY FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENZYMES; LIGHT SOURCES; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT CELL CULTURE; RNA;

PHOTORECEPTORS;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

ANIMALIA; ASTASIA; ASTASIA LONGA; EUGLENA; EUGLENA GRACILIS; EUGLENA LONGA; MASTIGOPHORA (FLAGELLATES); PROTISTA;

EID: 0347052763     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.103.034223     Document Type: Article

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