Adaptive responses in  Chlamydomonas reinhardtii

doi:10.2436/im.v2i1.9171

International Microbiology, Vol 2, No 1 (1999)

Adaptive responses in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii

Sebastián Mendez-Alvarez, Urs Leisinger, Rik I. L. Eggen

Abstract

The photosynthetic single cellular alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii has been used as a model organism to examine in detail the physiological, biochemical and molecular processes of photosynthesis, flagella synthesis and movement, mineral stress, interactions between nucleus, chloroplasts and mitochondria and other processes. In this review we summarize part of the current knowledge on adaptive responses in C. reinhardtii when it is exposed to oxidative stress and to changes in light intensity, concentration of minerals, herbicides and metals. The individual responses are linked in order to understand the response of the cell, which is continuously subjected to fluctuations, as a whole.

Full Text: PDF

Sello de Calidad FECYT

5-year Impact Factor of International Microbiology is 2,10.

The journal is covered in several leading abstracting and indexing databases, including the following ones: AFSA Marine Biotechnology Abstracts; Biological Abstracts; Biotechnology Research Abstracts; BIOSIS Previews; CAB Abstracts; Chemical Abstracts; Current Contents–Agriculture, Biology & Environmental Sciences; EBSCO; Embase; Food Science and Technology Abstracts; Google Scholar; IEDCYT; IBECS; Latíndex; MedBioWorld; PubMed; SciELO-Spain; Science Citation Index Expanded; Scopus

This work, including photographs and other illustrations, unless the contrary is indicated, is subject to an Attributions–Non-Commercial–ShareAlike 3.0 Creative Commons License, the full text of which can be consulted at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/. You are free to share, copy, distribute and transmit the work provided that the author is credited and reuse of the material is restricted to non-commercial purposes only and that if you alter, transform, or build upon this work, you may distribute the resulting work only under the same or similar license to this one.