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- adjective Relating to the
perception oflight (in theeye or otherphotoreceptor )
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Examples
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In the aneural demosponge, A. queenslandica, the three Lhx genes are expressed widely during development, including in cells that are associated with the larval photosensory ring.
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"A photosensory two-component system regulates bacterial cell attachment,"
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Modeling of the full-length bacteriophytochrome structure, including its output histidine kinase domain, suggests how local structural changes originating in the photosensory domain modulate interactions between long, cross-domain signaling helices at the dimer interface and are transmitted to the spatially distant effector domain, thereby regulating its histidine kinase activity.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences current issue X. Yang 2008
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Pseudomonas aeruginosa with an intact, fully photoactive photosensory core domain in its dark-adapted Pfr state.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences current issue X. Yang 2008
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Hjdarrrr’s single eyestalk elongated, the pink photosensory bulb blinking at the white knight.
365 tomorrows » 2008 » June : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2008
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However, rhodopsins, which are the major photosensory pigments in flies and other animals, are not able to form radical pairs because photoexcitation leads to cis-trans isomerization of retinal rather than an electron transfer [
biocon commented on the word photosensory
Photosensory: relating to the perception of light in animals.
January 29, 2012