内容説明
Light and time are key environmental components for the majority of organisms. Biologically, time operates at various scales: the annual cycle of seasons, the daily cycle of the sun or the potentially rapid cycle of cell division. What is apparently fundamental to all organisms is the ability to respond in a manner predictive of time. Time-dependent changes in physiology, morphology and ecology are responsive to various environmental cues, the most prominent of which is light. The ability of organisms to perceive, harvest and protect themselves from light is also of fundamental importance leading to a variety of biological responses including phototaxis and photosynthesis. This volume, which concentrates primarily but not exclusively on microorganisms both prokaryotic and eukaryotic, provides a series of chapters which explore various aspects of the underlying biology, providing a wide ranging and up-to-date review of this fundamental area of biology, currently advancing at an exhilarating pace.
目次
- Preface
- 1. Overview and comparison with plants J. F. ALLEN
- 2. Motility responses towards light shown by phototrophic bacteria J. P. ARMITAGE
- 3. Archaeal rhodopsins use the same light-triggered molecular switch for ion transport and phototaxis signalling J. L. SPUDICH
- 4. Gas vesicles and buoyancy in cynobacteria: interrelations with light A. E. WALSBY
- 5. How microalgae see the light P. HEGEMANN and H. HARTZ
- 6. Negative phototaxis in photosynthetic bacteria K. J. HELLINGWERF, R. KORT and W. CRIELAARD
- 7. The role of light in the regulation of moss development D. COVE and t. lAMPARTER
- 8. Structure and function of antennae proteins involved in anoxygenic photosynthesis R. J. CODGELL
- 9. Light regulation of pigment-protein gene expression in Rhodobacter species M. PHILLIPS -JONES
- 10. Light regulation of carotenoid synthesis in Myxococcus xanthus D. A. HODGSON and A. E. BERRY
- 11. Responses to blue-light in Neurospora crassa G. MACINO, G. ARPAIA, H. LINDEN and P. BALLARIO
- 12. Circadian rhythms in cyanobacteria S. S. GOLDEN, M. ISHIURA, C. HIRSCHIE JOHNSON and T. KONDO
- 13. Survival in a temporal world - the circadian program of the marine unicell Gonyaulax T. ROENNEBERG and J. REHMAN
- 14. Temporal organisation of the cell division cycle in eukaryotic microbes D. LLOYD and D. A. GILBERT
- 15. The circadian regulatory system in Neurospora crassa J. C. DUNLAP, J. J. Loros, S. Crosthwaite, Y. Liu, N. Garceau, D. Bell- Pedersen, M. Shinohara, C. Luo, M. Collett, A. B. Cole and C. Heinzen
- 16. Clocks in Drosophila C. KYRIACOU.
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