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Sensory Transduction in Halobacterium

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Bacteria can sense and integrate outside stimuli and adapt to new environmental conditions, thereby revealing a simple mode of behavior. By a temporal sensing mechanism, bacteria orient indirectly in a biased three-dimensional random walk which finally leads the cells to accumulate in favorable surroundings or to avoid unfavorable areas. Chemosensing in eubacteria has been studied in a number of laboratories and is the sensory system most advanced in biochemical understanding (Koshland, 1980; Berg, 1985; Macnab, 1985).

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    Eilo Hildebrand & Angelika Schimz

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    Pill-Soon Song

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Hildebrand, E., Schimz, A. (1985). Sensory Transduction in Halobacterium . In: Colombetti, G., Lenci, F., Song, PS. (eds) Sensory Perception and Transduction in Aneural Organisms. NATO ASI Series, vol 89. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-2497-3_7

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