This First Complete Resource On Photosensory Receptors From Bacteria, Plants And Animals Compiles The Data On All Known Classes Of Photoreceptors, Creating A Must-have Reference For Students And Researchers For Many Years To Come. Among The Editors Are The Current And A Former President Of The American Society For Photobiology. Microbial Rhodopsins : Phylogenetic And Functional Diversity / John L. Spudich And Kwang-hwan Jung -- Sensory Rhodopsin Signaling In Green Flagellate Algae / Oleg A. Sineshchekov And John L. Spudich -- Visual Pigments As Photoreceptors / Masato Kumauchi And Thomas Ebrey -- Structural And Functional Aspects Of The Mammalian Rod-cell Photoreceptor Rhodopsin / Najmoutin G. Abdulaev And Kevin D. Ridge -- A Novel Light Sensing Pathway In The Eye : Conserved Features Of Inner Retinal Photoreception In Rodents, Man And Teleost Fish / Mark W. Hankins And Russell G. Foster -- The Phytochromes / Shih-long Tu And J. Clark Lagarias -- Phytochrome Signaling / Enamul Huq And Peter H. Quail -- Phytochromes In Microorganisms / Richard D. Vierstra And Baruch Karniol -- Light-activated Intracellular Movement Of Phytochrome / Eberhard SchΓ€fer And Ferenc Nagy -- Plant Cryptochromes : Their Genes, Biochemistry, And Physiological Roles / Alfred Batschauer --^ Plant Cryptochromes And Signaling / Anthony R. Cashmore -- Animal Cryptochromes / Russell N. Van Gelder And Aziz Sancar -- Blue Light Sensing And Signaling By The Phototropins / John M. Christie And Winslow R. Briggs -- Lov-domain Photochemistry / Trevor E. Swartz And Roberto A. Bogomolni -- Lov-domain Structure, Dynamics, And Diversity / Sean Crosson -- The Zeitlupe Family Of Putative Photoreceptors / Thomas F. Schultz -- Photoreceptor Gene Families In Lower Plants / Noriyuki Suetsugu And Masamitsu Wada -- Neurospora Photoreceptors / Jay C. Dunlap And Jennifer J. Loros -- Photoactive Yellow Protein, The Xanthopsin / Michael A. Van Der Horst [and Others] -- Hypericin-like Photoreceptors / Pill-soon Song -- The Antirepressor Appa Uses The Novel Flavin-binding Bluf Domain As A Blue-light-absorbing Photoreceptor To Control Photosystem Synthesis / Shinji Masuda And Carl E. Bauer --^ Discovery And Characterization Of Photoactivated Adenylyl Cyclase (pac), A Novel Blue-light Receptor Flavoprotein, From Euglena Gracilis / Masakatsu Watanabe And Mineo Iseki. Winslow R. Briggs, John L. Spudich, Eds. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Also Available In An Electronic Version. Mode Of Access: World Wide Web.