How 5000 independent rowers coordinate their strokes in order to row into the sunlight: Phototaxis in the multicellular green alga Volvox

BMC Biology

Volumn 8, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Ueki, Noriko ^a,b   Matsunaga, Shigeru ^b,c   Inouye, Isao ^b   Hallmann, Armin ^a  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^c GRADUATE UNIVERSITY FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGAE; CHLAMYDOMONADALES; CHLOROPHYTA; MASTIGOPHORA (FLAGELLATES); VOLVOX; VOLVOX ROUSSELETII;

ARTICLE; FLAGELLUM; GENETICS; LIGHT; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; ULTRASTRUCTURE; VOLVOX;

FLAGELLA; LIGHT; MOVEMENT; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PHYLOGENY; VOLVOX;

EID: 77954868989     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17417007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1741-7007-8-103     Document Type: Article

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