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• ISBN: 0300088043 (cloth : alk. paper)
• ISBN: 9780300088045 (cloth : alk. paper)
• Physical Description: xii, 276 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
• Publisher: New Haven : Yale University Press, 2001.

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Vision at the threshold -- The five percent solution to vision -- A more delightful vision -- A burning issue -- A sad tale -- The purple disease -- A novel method of weed control -- Light and beer -- Phycomyces, the fungus that sees -- Dictyostelium, the amoeba and the slug -- High hopes for hypericin -- Turning on a butterfly -- Blue moons and red tides -- Photosynthesis and the Great Salt Lake -- Too much of a good thing.

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Photobiology.
Photoreceptors.
Light > Physiological effect.
Vision.