Cognitive behaviors in single-celled eukaryotes


(Lebert and Hader 1997; Nakagaki 2001; Lenci 2004; Ginger, Portman et al. 2008; de Bekker, Merrow et al. 2014; Tosches, Bucher et al. 2014; Youk and Lim 2014; Oberholzer, Saada et al. 2015; Kuburich, Adhikari et al. 2016)

 

·      Chemosensing: (Blackburn and Fenchel 1999; Fenchel and Blackburn 1999; Ermilova, Zalutskaya et al. 2000; Ritchie, van Es et al. 2008; Maeda, Mayanagi et al. 2009; Nam, Kim et al. 2009; Ayo, Txakartegi et al. 2010; Hadjivasiliou, Iwasa et al. 2015)


·      Mating factor signalling: (Tedford, Kim et al. 1997; Naider and Becker 2004; Bardwell 2005; Moore, Chou et al. 2008; Jones and Bennett 2011)

·      Algal phototaxis: (Bennett and Golestanian 2015; Kim, Kwak et al. 2016; Arrieta, Barreira et al. 2017; Kinoshita, Nagasato et al. 2017; Böhm, Boness et al. 2019; Kato, Ozasa et al. 2020)


·      Gravitaxis: (Häder and Hemmersbach 2017)


·      Bacterial prey discrimination: (Ayo, Latatu et al. 2009)


·      Negative necrotaxis: (Ragot 1993)

 

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