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Applied Bionics and Biomechanics, 2012 The slime mould Physarumpolycephalum is a suitable candidate organism for soft-matter robotics because it exhibits controllable transport, movement and guidance behaviour.
Soichiro Tsuda +2 more
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A new species and three new combinations in the genus Nannengaella (Physaraceae, Myxomycetes) [PDF]
Frontiers in MicrobiologyMyxomycetes (true slime molds) are amoebozoan protists involved in decomposition and nutrient cycling in terrestrial ecosystems. Recent molecular studies have led to major taxonomic revisions in Physaraceae, including the establishment of the genus ...
Xuefei Li +15 more
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Salt affects structure, function and transcriptome in the giant cells of slime molds [PDF]
Scientific ReportsSalt is essential for life, though excessive intake disrupts the balance of body fluids in multicellular organisms like humans. We wondered what happens when body fluids circulate in a single cell.
Beatriz Sánchez-Parra +3 more
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Measurement of protoplasmic streaming over the entire body of Physarum plasmodium, and estimation of the transport and mixing of protoplasma through the intricate vein network [PDF]
Biophysics and PhysicobiologyTransport networks spanning the entire body of an organism are key infrastructures for achieving a functional system and facilitating the distribution of nutrients and signals.
Yo Sato +5 more
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All Organisms Can Be Anesthetized, but There's No Point? [PDF]
BioEssays, Volume 47, Issue 10, October 2025.ABSTRACT Because of their interest in medicine, most studies on anesthesia have historically focused on the nervous systems of animals. This has often led to the neglect of the fact that all life forms have the potential to be anesthetized. Anesthetics target proteins, such as four‐domain voltage‐dependent Na+/Ca2⁺ channels (4D‐NaV/CaV) and glutamate ...
Lucia Sylvain‐Bonfanti +7 more
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Discovery of the first unconventional myosin: Acanthamoeba myosin-I [PDF]
Frontiers in Physiology, 2023 Having characterized actin from Acanthamoeba castellanii (Weihing and Korn, Biochemistry, 1971, 10, 590–600) and knowing that myosin had been isolated from the slime mold Physarum (Hatano and Tazawa, Biochim. Biophys.
Thomas D. Pollard +2 more
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Catalogue of fungi in China 4: Didymiaceae and Physaraceae (Myxomycetes) [PDF]
MycologyMyxomycetes play crucial ecological roles, yet their species diversity, distribution, and taxonomic relationships remain poorly understood. In this study, we examined 104 specimens from 19 provinces in China. Through morphological analysis, we identified
Xuefei Li +11 more
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Basic Transitions of Physarum Polycephalum [PDF]
Annals of computer science and information systems, 2015 The main charter of this work is the organism Physarum polycephalum, in particular plasmodium, Physarum's vegetative phase. During this latter form, the organism is more active and moves searching for food. Plasmodium behaves like a giant amoeba, and more interestingly, its way of foraging can be interpreted as a computation.
Alice Dimonte +2 more
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PhysarumSoft - a Software Tool for Programming Physarum Machines and Simulating Physarum Games [PDF]
Annals of computer science and information systems, 2015 In the paper, we describe selected functionality of the current version of a new software tool, called PhysarumSoft, developed for programming Physarum machines and simulating Physarum games. The tool was designed for the Java platform. A Physarum machine is a biological computing device implemented in the plasmodium of Physarum polycephalum or ...
Andrew Schumann, Krzysztof Pancerz
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The capacity constraint physarum solver
Journal of Computational Science, 2022 Physarum polycephalum inspired algorithm (PPA), also known as the Physarum Solver, has attracted great attention. By modelling real-world problems into a graph with network flow and adopting proper equations to calculate the distance between the nodes in the graph, PPA could be used to solve system optimization problems or user equilibrium problems ...
Yusheng Huang +3 more
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