"Phototaxis" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
A behavioral change that results in an organism moving or orienting toward or away from the light source.
| Descriptor ID |
D000071444
|
| MeSH Number(s) |
F01.145.113.780.875 F01.145.875.439.500.875 G07.568.500.590.875 G11.427.410.568.850.875
|
| Concept/Terms |
|
Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Phototaxis".
Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more specific than "Phototaxis".
This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Phototaxis" by people in this website by year, and whether "Phototaxis" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
To see the data from this visualization as text,
click here.
| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
|---|
| 2021 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
To return to the timeline,
click here.
Below are the most recent publications written about "Phototaxis" by people in Profiles.
-
Chlamydomonas LZTFL1 mediates phototaxis via controlling BBSome recruitment to the basal body and its reassembly at the ciliary tip. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2021 Aug 31; 118(35).