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The cyrtophorid ciliate Chlamydodon mnemosyne shows accurate orientation with respect to the direction of light. Positive phototaxis occurs during mild starvation, while the cells are negatively phototactic in the well-fed state. Beside the determination of the illuminance-response curve for white light, we have measured the action spectrum of phototaxis in this ciliate by means of an automatic cell-tracking...