Life under the sun / Peter A. Ensminger.

Which fungus is as sensitive to light as the human eye? What are the myths and facts about the ozone hole, tanning, skin cancer, and sunscreens? What is the effect of light on butterfly copulation? This entertaining collection of essays explores how various organisms - including archaebacteria, slim...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Ensminger, Peter A., 1957-
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, ©2001.
Subjects:	Photobiology. Photoreceptors. Light > Physiological effect. Vision. sight (sense) SCIENCE > Essays. Light > Physiological effect Photobiology Photoreceptors Vision Photobiologie Sonne. Aufsatzsammlung.
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Table of Contents:

Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Vision at the Threshold
2. The Five Percent Solution to Vision
3. A More Delightful Vision
4. A Burning Issue
5. A SAD Tale
6. The Purple Disease
7. A Novel Method of Weed Control
8. Light and Beer
9. Phycomyces, the Fungus That Sees
10. Dictyostelium, the Amoeba and the Slug
11. High Hopes for Hypericin
12. Turning on a Butterfly
13. Blue Moons and Red Tides
14. Photosynthesis and the Great Salt Lake
15. Too Much of a Good Thing
Appendix: A Menagerie of MoleculesNotes
Glossary
Index

Life under the sun / Peter A. Ensminger.

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