Life Under the SunYale University Press, 2008 M10 1 - 276 páginas This collection of essays explores how various organisms sense and respond to sunlight. It covers topics such as vision photosynthesis and phototropism, as well as why light causes beer to develop an odour. |
Contenido
| 1 | |
| 11 | |
| 20 | |
3 A More Delightful Vision | 31 |
4 A Burning Issue | 43 |
5 A SAD Tale | 56 |
6 The Purple Disease | 69 |
7 A Novel Method of Weed Control | 80 |
11 High Hopes for Hypericin | 128 |
12 Turning on a Butterfly | 139 |
13 Blue Moons and Red Tides | 149 |
14 Photosynthesis and the Great Salt Lake | 161 |
15 Too Much of a Good Thing | 173 |
A Menagerie of Molecules | 183 |
Notes | 201 |
Glossary | 259 |
8 Light and Beer | 95 |
9 Phycomyces the Fungus That Sees | 104 |
10 Dictyostelium the Amoeba and the Slug | 116 |
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
Términos y frases comunes
absorb absorption Academy of Sciences action spectrum alpha acids amoebas animals Appendix Arikawa bacteria bacteriorhodopsin beer biologists Biology bioluminescence Blepharisma blue light butterfly carotenoids cause cellular Chapter chemical chlorophyll circadian rhythms color vision compound Dictyostelium discoideum effect energy eyes figure flavin gene genetic genitalia germination Gonyaulax Häder Halobacterium herbicides humans hydrothermal vent hypericin Ibid iso-alpha acids Journal of Photochemistry light levels male mantis shrimp mechanism melanoma melatonin Molecular molecules mutants National Academy opsin organisms oxygen ozone Photochemistry and Photobiology photolyase photon photoreceptive pigment photoreceptor photosensitivity photosensory photosynthesis phototaxis phototherapy phototropism Phycomyces Physiology phytochrome pineal plants porphyria protein responses retinal rhodopsin Rimicaris rod cells role seasonal affective disorder seeds sensory Shafii sidebar skin cancer slime molds slug sorocarp species sporangiophore Stentor studies sunlight sunstruck reaction tion ultraviolet radiation University Press visual pigments vitamin wavelength weed wort xanthophyll xanthophyll cycle York zeaxanthin