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Stentor coeruleus SHOWS POSITIVE PHOTOKINESIS
Author(s) -
Iwatsuki Kenji
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
photochemistry and photobiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.818
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1751-1097
pISSN - 0031-8655
DOI - 10.1111/j.1751-1097.1992.tb04264.x
Subject(s) - phototaxis , light intensity , action spectrum , biophysics , intensity (physics) , biology , chemistry , optics , physics , botany
— Stentor coeruleus responds to a sudden increase in light intensity with a step‐up photophobic response (avoiding reaction), and to collimated light with negative phototaxis. The peaks of the action spectra for the photophobic response and for the phototaxis are in common, 610 nm. 5. coeruleus showed changes in its steady‐state swimming velocity induced with varying intensities of light (photokinesis). The cells swam fast in light regions but slowly in dark ones (positive photokinesis); the mean velocity of swimming was about 0.6 mm/s at 100 lx but reached about 1.0 mm/s at 50000 lx. The peak of the action spectrum for this photokinesis was about 680 nm. The organism is the first protozoan cell reported to show three types of photoresponse: photophobic response, phototaxis and photokinesis.