Abstract
Photomovement may be described as any light-mediated behavioral act involving the spatial displacement of all or part of an organism. In order to understand better what these responses are and how they may be studied, we must first classify, or at least define, their basic characteristics. The scheme described here is the result of the better part of two centuries of work and is best summarized in the classic study of Fraenkel and Gunn.(1)
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Hand, W.G. (1977). Photomovement. In: Smith, K.C. (eds) The Science of Photobiology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-1713-5_12
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