Gravitaxis of Euglena gracilis depends only partially on passive buoyancy

Advances in Space Research

Volumn 39, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1218-1224

  Richter, Peter R ^a   Schuster, Martin ^a   Lebert, Michael ^a   Streb, Christine ^a   Häder, Donat Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Buoyancy; Euglena gracilis; Fore aft asymmetry; Gravitaxis; Motion analysis; Sounding rockets

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; BUOYANCY; CELL IMMOBILIZATION; CELLS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PHYSIOLOGY; SOUNDING ROCKETS;

AFT ASYMMETRY; EUGLENA GRACILIS; GRAVITAXIS; MOTION ANALYSIS;

ALGAE;

EID: 34249736469     PISSN: 02731177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asr.2006.11.024     Document Type: Article

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