Gravity-related behaviour in ciliates and flagellates

Advances in Space Biology and Medicine

Volumn 8, Issue , 2002, Pages 59-75

  Hemmersbach, Ruth ^a   Bräucker, Richard ^a  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CILIATE; FLAGELLATE; GRAVITY; MECHANORECEPTOR; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; SECOND MESSENGER; WEIGHTLESSNESS;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CILIOPHORA; GRAVITATION; GRAVITY PERCEPTION; MASTIGOPHORA; MECHANORECEPTORS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SECOND MESSENGER SYSTEMS; WEIGHTLESSNESS SIMULATION;

EID: 18144441380     PISSN: 15692574     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/s1569-2574(02)08015-2     Document Type: Article

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