title: Mechanisms of graviperception and response in unicellular systems.
abstract: This introduction to a symposium considers established principles of mechanoreception and the physiology of excitable cells as a background of gravireception. From the perspective of experimental work in protists, current developments in the treatment and interpretation of graviresponses are addressed.
authors.affiliation: AG Zellulare Erregungsphysiologie, Ruhr-Universitat, Bochum, Germany.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Machemer
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002696:Chlamydomonas; D016798:Ciliophora; D006112:Gravitation; D018466:Gravity Sensing / Q000502:physiology*; D008124:Locomotion / Q000502:physiology; D008465:Mechanoreceptors / Q000502:physiology*; D009949:Orientation / Q000502:physiology; D010247:Paramecium; D015398:Signal Transduction / Q000502:physiology*; D013550:Swimming / Q000502:physiology