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The Photomotile Responses of Unicellular Eukaryotes

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The main goal of this paper is to give a short overview of recent research progress on photobehavior in three different groups of unicellular organisms: colored, photosynthetic flagellates (e.g., Euglena), colored, non-photosynthetic ciliates (e.g., Stentor), and colorless flagellates and ciliates (e.g., Astasia and Paramecium), respectively.

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  1. Department of Cell Biology, Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, Warsaw, Poland

    Ewa Mikolajczyk

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Mikolajczyk, E. (1988). The Photomotile Responses of Unicellular Eukaryotes. In: Douglas, R.H., Moan, J., Dall’Acqua, F. (eds) Light in Biology and Medicine. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-0709-9_53

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