Life under the sun /
Which fungus is as sensitive to light as the human eye? What are the myths and facts about the ozone hole, tanning, skin cancer, and sunscreens? What is the effect of light on butterfly copulation? This entertaining collection of essays explores how various organisms - including archaebacteria, slim...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New Haven, CT :
Yale University Press,
©2001.
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Full text (MFA users only) |
| ISBN: | 9780300133523 0300133529 |
| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. Vision at the Threshold
- 2. The Five Percent Solution to Vision
- 3. A More Delightful Vision
- 4. A Burning Issue
- 5. A SAD Tale
- 6. The Purple Disease
- 7. A Novel Method of Weed Control
- 8. Light and Beer
- 9. Phycomyces, the Fungus That Sees
- 10. Dictyostelium, the Amoeba and the Slug
- 11. High Hopes for Hypericin
- 12. Turning on a Butterfly
- 13. Blue Moons and Red Tides
- 14. Photosynthesis and the Great Salt Lake
- 15. Too Much of a Good Thing
- Appendix: A Menagerie of MoleculesNotes
- Glossary
- Index