Sensory Perception and Transduction in Aneural Organisms

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-viii

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2. General Survey Of Sensory Transduction In Aneural Organisms

   • Wolfgang Haupt

   Pages 1-18

3. Physics of Bacterial Chemotaxis

   • Howard C. Berg

   Pages 19-30

4. Biochemistry of Sensory Transduction in Bacteria

   • Robert M. Macnab

   Pages 31-46

5. Primary Molecular Events in Aneural Cell Photoreceptors

   • Pill-Soon Song

   Pages 47-59

6. Methods for the Microspectroscopic Investigation of Photoreceptive Structures

   • P. A. Benedetti

   Pages 61-74

7. Computer-Aided Studies of Photoinduced Behaviors

   • Donat-P. Häder

   Pages 75-91

8. Sensory Transduction in Halobacterium

   • Eilo Hildebrand, Angelika Schimz

   Pages 93-111

9. Color-Sensing by Phototactic Halobacterium Halobium

   • John Spudich

   Pages 113-118

10. Behavioral Studies of Free-Swimming Photoresponsive Organisms

    • Mary Ella Feinleib

    Pages 119-146

11. Photosensing in Cyanobacteria

    • Wilhelm Nultsch

    Pages 147-164

12. Sensory Transduction In Euglena

    • Bodo Diehn

    Pages 165-178

13. Mechanoresponses in Protozoa

    • Hans Machemer

    Pages 179-209

14. Signal Processing in the Transduction Mechanisms of Phototropism

    • W. Shropshire Jr.

    Pages 211-229

15. Photomorphogenesis In Microorganisms

    • V. E. A. Russo, J. A. A. Chambers, F. Degli-Innocenti, Th. Sommer

    Pages 231-249

16. Mechanisms for the Measurement of Light Direction

    • Kenneth L. Poff

    Pages 251-263

17. Phytochrome Regulation of Plant Development at the Whole Plant, Physiological, and Molecular Levels

    • Winslow R. Briggs, Dina F. Mandoli, James R. Shinkle, Lon S. Kaufman, John C. Watson, William F. Thompson

    Pages 265-280

18. Molecular Mechanisms of Photoinduced Chloroplast Movements

    • Gottfried Wagner, Franz Grolig

    Pages 281-298

19. Temperature Sensing in Microorganisms

    • Kenneth L. Poff

    Pages 299-307

20. Enzymatic Amplification Mechanism of Visual Transduction Signal in Retinal Rods

    • Marc Chabre

    Pages 309-320

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 dealing with several aspects and problems of sensory perception and transduction of diverse environmental stimuli in aneural organisms. Scientists from different fields and cultural backgrounds were present at the meeting. both as lecturers and as students. The lectures and the discussions that followed represented a well integrated interdisci­ plinary approach to the questions considered. At the end of the Advanced Study Institute course. it was quite clear that. notwith­ standing the apparent heterogeneity of the topics dealt with. unifying concepts and ideas already existed, among the most important being the role of membranes and their physicochemical properties. All this should be reflected in the content of this book. We gratefully acknowledge the financial sponsorship of the Scientific Affairs Division of NATO (Brussels), that made both the Advanced Study Institute on "Sensory Perception and Transduction in Aneural Organisms" and this book possible. Finally. we are also indebted to Ms. Pat Parham Morgan who expertly retyped all the chapters of the book and Ms. Leslie Schmidt of Plenum Publishing Co. provided us valuable advice and suggestions on the preparation of this book. G. Colombetti F. Lenci P. S.

• Chloroplast
• Protozoa
• bacteria
• behavior
• biochemistry
• cell
• environment
• microorganism
• morphogenesis
• plant
• receptor

• National Research Council, Pisa, Italy

  Giuliano Colombetti, Francesco Lenci

• Texas Tech University, Lubbock, USA

  Pill-Soon Song

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