NALT

Preferred term

taxis (physiology)

Topic

Movement of animals or other mobile organisms that is inducible and takes place in a direction related to that of the stimulus, such as the movement of the flagellate protozoan, Euglena, towards light in positive phototaxis.

physiology

tropisms

Use for orientation movement of animals and other organisms with mobility (e.g., flagella, motile cilia, appendages) in response to a stimulus; For movement in plants and other non-mobile organisms USE tropisms.

Field 001 in MARC Authority Format

36888

Spanish

taxis (fisiología)

URI

https://lod.nal.usda.gov/nalt/24726

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Created 1/19/06, last modified 2/5/18