Sensory Perception and Transduction in Aneural Organisms Proceedings of a NATO ASI held in Volterra, Italy, September 3-14, 1984

This book is based on the lectures given at the NATO Advanced Study Institute on "Sensory Perception and Transduction in Aneural Organisms" held in Volterra (Pisa. Italy) from the third to the fourteenth of September. 1984. The Advanced Study Institute was planned as a high level course de...

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Other Authors: Colombetti, Giuliano (Editor), Lenci, Francesco (Editor), Pill-Soon Song (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY Springer US 1985, 1985
Edition:1st ed. 1985
Series:NATO Science Series A:, Life Sciences
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • General Survey of Sensory Transduction in Aneural Organisms
  • Physics of Bacterial Chemotaxis
  • Biochemistry of Sensory Transduction in Bacteria
  • Primary Molecular Events in Aneural Cell Photoreceptors
  • Methods for the Microspectroscopic Investigation of Photoreceptive Structures
  • Computer-Aide Studies of Photoinduced Behaviors
  • Sensory Transduction in Halobacterium
  • Color-Sensing by Phototactic Halobacterium halobium
  • Behavioral Studies of Free-Swimming Photoresponsive Organisms
  • Photosensing in Cyanobacteria
  • Sensory Transduction in Euglena
  • Mechanoresponses in Protozoa
  • Signal Processing in the Transduction Mechanisms of Phototropism
  • Photomorphogenesis in Microorganisms
  • Mechanisms for the Measurement of Light Direction
  • Phytochrome Regulation of Plant Development at the Whole Plant, Physiological, and Molecular Levels
  • Molecular Mechanisms of Photoinduced Chloroplast Movements
  • Temperature Sensing in Microorganisms
  • Enzymatic Amplification Mechanism of Visual Transduction Signal in Retinal Rods
  • Participants