Evolution of phototaxis
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- 12 October 2009
- journal article
- review article
- Published by The Royal Society in Philosophical Transactions Of The Royal Society B-Biological Sciences
- Vol. 364 (1531) , 2795-2808
- https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2009.0072
Abstract
Phototaxis in the broadest sense means positive or negative displacement along a light gradient or vector. Prokaryotes most often use a biased random walk strategy, employing type I sensory rhodops...Keywords
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