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. 1982 Mar;69(3):742–744. doi: 10.1104/pp.69.3.742

Phycomyces: Discovery of the Aiming Error in the Avoidance Response 1

R I Gamow 1, Barbel Böttger 1
PMCID: PMC426292  PMID: 16662287

Abstract

It has been determined experimentally that, when a stage IVb Phycomycea sporangiophore is subjected to an asymmetric avoidance stimulus (a single barrier), it uses its own net rotation to convert the spatial stimulus to a temporal one. This finding explains the sporangiophore's nonadaptation to a single-barrier stimulus and adaptation to a double-barrier stimulus.

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