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Sensory Perception and Transduction in Aneural Organisms

Proceedings of a NATO ASI held in Volterra, Italy, September 3-14, 1984

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 1985

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Editors:
  1. Giuliano Colombetti

    1. National Research Council, Pisa, Italy

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  2. Francesco Lenci

    1. National Research Council, Pisa, Italy

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  3. Pill-Soon Song

    1. Texas Tech University, Lubbock, USA

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Part of the book series: NATO Science Series A: (NSSA, volume 89)

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Table of contents (19 papers)

  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
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About this book

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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • National Research Council, Pisa, Italy

    Giuliano Colombetti, Francesco Lenci

  • Texas Tech University, Lubbock, USA

    Pill-Soon Song

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Sensory Perception and Transduction in Aneural Organisms

  • Book Subtitle: Proceedings of a NATO ASI held in Volterra, Italy, September 3-14, 1984

  • Editors: Giuliano Colombetti, Francesco Lenci, Pill-Soon Song

  • Series Title: NATO Science Series A:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-2497-3

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Plenum Press, New York 1985

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4612-9511-2Published: 05 October 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4613-2497-3Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: 330

  • Topics: Biochemistry, general, Microbiology

  • Industry Sectors: Biotechnology, Consumer Packaged Goods, Pharma

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