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What does phototaxis mean?

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Noun
  1. (biology) The movement of an organism either towards or away from a source of light
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Other studies have reported that calcium ions are required for phototaxis in Cryptomonas sp. and the slime mold Physarum polycephalum.
Wild-type flies showing normal phototaxis consistently moved towards the light to end up in the last tube by the end of the trial.
In 1883, he demonstrated that phototaxis of other protozoans toward Euglena was due to light-induced production of oxygen in the latter.
If it acts in a one-sided way, it causes the particular form of stimulation which we call phototaxis or heliotropism.
Phototaxis and vertical migration of the queen conch veliger larvae.
Go-opsin1 knockout larvae were phototactic but showed reduced efficiency of phototaxis to wavelengths matching the in vitro Go-opsin1 spectrum.

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