Phototaxis: Life in focus

Elife. 2016 Feb 9:5:e14169. doi: 10.7554/eLife.14169.

Abstract

Single-celled photosynthetic bacteria determine the direction of incoming light by acting as lenses.

Keywords: Cyanobacteria; Micro-optics; Phototaxis; Signal transduction; Synechocystis sp PCC6803; Thermosynechococcus elongatus; biophysics; infectious disease; microbiology; structural biology.

Publication types

  • Comment

MeSH terms

  • Cyanobacteria
  • Light
  • Phototaxis*
  • Synechocystis*