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The role of noise in self-organized decision making by the true slime mold Physarum polycephalum. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2017 Self-organized mechanisms are frequently encountered in nature and known to achieve flexible, adaptive control and decision-making. Noise plays a crucial role in such systems: It can enable a self-organized system to reliably adapt to short-term changes ...
Bernd Meyer +2 more
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An Improved Physarum polycephalum Algorithm for the Shortest Path Problem [PDF]
The Scientific World Journal, 2014 Shortest path is among classical problems of computer science. The problems are solved by hundreds of algorithms, silicon computing architectures and novel substrate, unconventional, computing devices. Acellular slime mould P.
Xiaoge Zhang +5 more
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Genetic Diversity in the mtDNA of Physarum polycephalum. [PDF]
Genes (Basel), 2023 The mtDNA of the myxomycete Physarum polycephalum can contain as many as 81 genes. These genes can be grouped in three different categories. The first category includes 46 genes that are classically found on the mtDNA of many organisms. However, 43 of these genes are cryptogenes that require a unique type of RNA editing (MICOTREM). A second category of
Hammar F, Miller DL.
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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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Tracking Mechanical Stress and Cell Migration with Inexpensive Polymer Thin‐Film Sensors
Advanced Materials Interfaces, 2023 Polydiacetylene (PDA) Langmuir films are well known for their blue‐to‐red chromatic transitions in response to a variety of stimuli, including UV light, heat, bio‐molecule bindings, and mechanical stress.
Tanner J. Finney +4 more
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A first glimpse at the transcriptome of
BMC Genomics, 2008 Background Physarum polycephalum, an acellular plasmodial species belongs to the amoebozoa, a major branch in eukaryote evolution. Its complex life cycle and rich cell biology is reflected in more than 2500 publications on various aspects of its ...
Meyer Sonja +4 more
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Relation between learning process and morphology of transport tube network in plasmodium of Physarum polycephalum [PDF]
Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology, 2023 The question of whether a single-celled organism without a brain could have functions such as learning and memory has been the subject of much debate in recent years.
Emiri Yoneoka, Atsuko Takamatsu
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Diet and mitonuclear haplotype interactions affect growth rate in a slime mould
Ecology and Evolution, 2023 Trait expression in metazoans is strongly influenced by the balance of macronutrients (i.e. protein, carbohydrate and fat) in the diet. At the same time, an individual's genetic background seems to regulate the magnitude of phenotypic response to a ...
Venkatesh Nagarajan‐Radha +2 more
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Cycloheximide resistance of Physarum polycephalum [PDF]
Journal of Bacteriology, 1980 In the presence of cycloheximide, wild-type plasmodia of Physarum polycephalum exhibit an immediate decrease in deoxyribonucleic acid synthesis, a reduction in the incorporation of [3H]thymidine into thymidine triphosphate, and an increase in the level of thymidine triphosphate, as well as a decrease in protein synthesis.
Thomas E. Evans, Helen H. Evans
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Go Games on Plasmodia of Physarum Polycephalum [PDF]
Annals of computer science and information systems, 2015 We simulate the motions of Physarum polycephalum plasmodium by the game of Go, the board game originated in ancient China more than 2,500 years ago. Then we concentrate just on Go games, where locations of black and white stones simulate syllogistic reasoning, in particular reasoning of Aristotelian syllogistic and reasoning of performative syllogistic.
Andrew Schumann
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