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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Information Transfer During Food Choice in the Slime Mold Physarum polycephalum
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2019 Throughout evolution, living systems have developed mechanisms to make adaptive decisions in the face of complex and changing environmental conditions. Most organisms make such decisions despite lacking a neural architecture.
Subash K. Ray +11 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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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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Sterol content of the Myxomycetes Physarum polycephalum and P. flavicomum
Journal of Lipid Research, 1976 The sterol content of two Myxomycetes, Physarum polycephalum and P. flavicomum has been examined. The sterols of the two species are apparently identical, the two major sterols in each being poriferasterol and 22-dihydroporiferasterol.
E Bullock, C J Dawson
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Emission and biosynthesis of volatile terpenoids from the plasmodial slime mold Physarum polycephalum [PDF]
Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry, 2019 Terpene synthases (TPSs) are pivotal enzymes for the production of diverse terpenes, including monoterpenes, sesquiterpenes, and diterpenes. In our recent studies, dictyostelid social amoebae, also known as cellular slime molds, were found to contain TPS
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Kanizsa illusory contours appearing in the plasmodium pattern of <i>Physarumpolycephalum</i> [PDF]
Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology, 2014 The plasmodium of Physarum polycephalum is often used in the implementation of non-linear computation to solve optimization problems, and this organismal feature was not used in this analysis to compute perception and/or sensation in humans.
Iori eTani +4 more
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Cytotoxicity activities and chemical characteristics of exopolysaccharides and intracellular polysaccharides of Physarum polycephalum microplasmodia [PDF]
BMC Biotechnology, 2021 Background Microbial polysaccharides have been reported to possess remarkable bioactivities. Physarum polycephalum is a species of slime mold for which the microplasmodia are capable of rapid growth and can produce a significant amount of cell wall-less ...
Tuyen T. H. Do +3 more
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