10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HELIOTACTIC»
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heliotactic in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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1
A Dictionary of Entomology
HELIOTACTIC. Adj. (Greek,. helios. I. sun. +. taxis I arrangement + -ic I of nature
of.) Seeking sunlight. Pertaining to organisms that seek sunlight. HELIOTHIS
NPV A naturally-occurring Nuclear Polyhedrosis Virus used as a.
2
The causes and course of organic evolution: a study of ...
He is and can be only cognizant of the danger through two sense relations, sight
or the heliotactic sense, and sound or the tonotactic. In other words, were such a
father near a drowning child, he would be utterly unaware of its danger, were his
...
John Muirhead Macfarlane, 1918
3
The Naturalist: A Monthly Journal of Natural History for the ...
If the intensity of the light remains constant we find that in bright sunlight at a low
temperature Euglenae are negatively heliotactic ; if the temperature is increased
some of them become positively heliotactic, and if the temperature is still further ...
4
American Journal of Botany
The explanation of the formation of the stratum at a depth of three meters on July
6 seems to me to rest on a heliotactic basis. Several investigators have noted that
Volvox is positively heliotactic in weak light and negatively heliotactic in strong ...
5
Cladocera as Model Organisms in Biology
The normal situation is, however, that the species when living in the pelagial, has
a negative heliotactic behaviour, and migrates to deeper water during the day (
Welch, 1952; Hutchinson, 1967). A possible explanation for the nocturnal activity
...
Petter Larsson, Lawrence J. Weider, 1995
6
Structure and Function of the Epiphysis Cerebri
... 398 Adrenoglomerulotropine, pineal hormone, 483 Aggression resistance,
effect of pineal extract, 626 Air gulping reaction and heliotactic behavior (Agama),
290 Aldactone, reserpine and diuresis, 587 Aldosterone output in pretectal
tumors, ...
J. Arie ̈ns Kappers, Lili Wang, 2011
7
Scientific Papers of the Namib Desert Research Station
In the two diurnal tribes Adesmiini and Zophosini (which are diurnal but not
necessarily heliophilous and dune-loving by inheritance), an evolutionary
development has taken place which has reached the highest degree of
heliotactic activity in ...
Namib Desert Research Station, 1961
8
Nematode Parasites of Vertebrates: Their Development and ...
They were markedly active at warm temperatures and in moist conditions, and
negatively geotactic in films of moisture and when not exposed to direct sunlight.
They were negatively heliotactic and died The Superfamily Trichostrongyloidea ...
... Epiphysa which, until recently, has been regarded as an independent tribef.
The Adesmiini are, by an overwhelming majority, diurnal and frequently also
heliotactic Tenebrionids, of a very wide Saharo-Sindic plus Tropic-African
distribution.
10
Monograph of the Tenebrionidae of Southern Africa
Most of them are slow-moving, nocturnal creatures, many umbral or crespuscular,
but many also diurnal to highly heliotactic. Among the latter there are the fastest
runners among the Coleoptera (e.g. Cardiosis, Ophthalmosis, Onymacris, ...
C. Koch (entomologist.), 1955
