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Mechanism and Strategies of Photomovement in Protozoa

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Biophysics of Photoreceptors and Photomovements in Microorganisms

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The subkingdom of the protozoa contains many different types of single celled organisms and some colonial (aggregate) forms that have been of interest to those interested in photomovement. In an older review by Bendix (1960), an evaluation of the photomovements of these different organisms, as reported by various researchers, was conducted by making reference to the orders to which each of the protozoa belonged. Revisions have been made both in the terminology (or naming of the protozoa) and also in the systematic grouping for classification (Lee et al., 1985). A re-evaluation of photomovements in the protozoa based on a systematics approach will hopefully prove useful if for no other reason than being considered as an update. Emphasis will be placed on the grouping of the protozoa by their subphyla, classes, (sub)orders. Within such a scheme, the current status of knowledge within each group will be briefly reviewed by highlighting aspects of the photochemical basis for the responses, the information available on possible transduction schemes and to compare the characteristics of the overall photomovements. Any order or genus where photobehavior has not obviously been reported has been omitted for convenience but noted in summary at the end. In this systematics approach, all of the subclass and suborder details are not included since there does not seem to be enough information at this time to warrant a systematics evaluation at a level beyond the individual (sub)orders. Full details of the classifications can be found in the recent text published by Lee, Hutner and Bovee (1985).

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Doughty, M.J. (1991). Mechanism and Strategies of Photomovement in Protozoa. In: Lenci, F., Ghetti, F., Colombetti, G., Häder, DP., Song, PS. (eds) Biophysics of Photoreceptors and Photomovements in Microorganisms. NATO ASI Series, vol 211. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-5988-3_6

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