{"id":8748,"date":"2019-05-22T16:11:05","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:11:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/phototaxis\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:11:05","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:11:05","slug":"phototaxis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/phototaxis\/","title":{"rendered":"Phototaxis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reflexive locomotion toward (\u2018positive\u2019) or away (\u2018negative\u2019) fromlight in phototropic organisms (e.g., phototropic eukaryotes and prokaryotes) along a light gradientor vector.&nbsp; In such organisms, photoaxisis mediated by a pair of very simple eyes or eyespots involving type I sensory rhodopsin photoreceptors.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"cones_and_rods\">Cones and rods<\/a>, Eurkaryote cell (or organism), Prokaryote cell (or organism)<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reflexive locomotion toward (\u2018positive\u2019) or away (\u2018negative\u2019) fromlight in phototropic organisms (e.g., phototropic eukaryotes and prokaryotes) along a light gradientor vector.&nbsp; In such organisms, photoaxisis mediated by a pair of very simple eyes or eyespots involving type I sensory rhodopsin photoreceptors.&nbsp; See Cones and rods, Eurkaryote cell (or organism), Prokaryote cell (or organism)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-8748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8748\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}