Plasmodial slime moulds (myxomycetes) in Swedish and Nordic folk biology [PDF]
Journal of Ethnobiology and EthnomedicineBackground Folk biology commonly contains knowledge of many more taxa than those of immediate economic importance. Species with little or no practical use are, however, often overlooked by ethnobiological research.
Ingvar Svanberg, Sabira Ståhlberg
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Effective mixing due to oscillatory laminar flow in tubular networks of plasmodial slime moulds
New Journal of Physics, 2020 The plasmodium of the unicellular slime mould Physarum polycephalum forms an extended vascular network in which protoplasm is transported through the giant cell due to peristaltic pumping. The flow in the veins is always parabolic and it performs shuttle
Michael Haupt, Marcus J B Hauser
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Two-gene phylogeny of bright-spored Myxomycetes (slime moulds, superorder Lucisporidia). [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 Myxomycetes, or plasmodial slime-moulds, are one of the largest groups in phylum Amoebozoa. Nonetheless, only ∼10% are in the database for the small subunit (SSU) ribosomal RNA gene, the most widely used gene for phylogenetics and barcoding.
Anna Maria Fiore-Donno +4 more
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The Occurrence of Myxomycete Communities in Taxodium distichum Forests: Influence of Substrates and Seasons [PDF]
MicroorganismsMyxomycete communities in Taxodium distichum forests and the influence of substrates and seasons on myxomycete diversity were studied. In total, 80 substrates (40 living barks and 40 litters) were collected from the sample site in winter, spring, summer ...
Yajing Chen +5 more
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Fluid flows shaping organism morphology. [PDF]
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci, 2018 A dynamic self-organized morphology is the hallmark of network-shaped organisms like slime moulds and fungi. Organisms continuously re-organize their flexible, undifferentiated body plans to forage for food. Among these organisms the slime mould Physarum
Alim K.
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The evolution of multicellular complexity: the role of relatedness and environmental constraints. [PDF]
Proc Biol Sci, 2020 Fisher RM, Shik JZ, Boomsma JJ.
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Network Coarsening Dynamics in a Plasmodial Slime Mould: Modelling and Experiments [PDF]
Acta Physica Polonica B, 2015 The giant unicellular slime mould Physarum polycephalum forms an extended network of stands (veins) that provide for an effective intracellular transportation system, which coarsens in time. The network coarsening was investigated numerically using an agent-based model and the results were compared to experimental observations.
W. Baumgarten, J. Jones, M.J.B. Hauser
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Sclerotization in Relation to Plasmodial Senescence in the Acellular Slime Mould Didymium iridis [PDF]
Microbiology, 1982 Summary: When subjected to dehydration, Didymium iridis plasmodia differentiate into sclerotia which can be maintained for long periods and exhibit no discernible O2 uptake. While actively growing plasmodia display the phenomenon of senescence, this ageing is delayed in sclerotia by the duration of the sclerotized state.
T. Lott, J. Clark
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Ribosomal RNA Genes in the Amoebal and Plasmodial Forms of the Slime Mould Physarum polycephalum [PDF]
European Journal of Biochemistry, 1975 1. The degree of homology between ribosomal RNA isolated from microplasmodia and amoebae of the slime mould Physarum polycephalum has been determined by competive hybridisation of the RNA from the two sources to homologous DNA in solution. The extent of competition was measured both by hybridisation to saturation and by following the kinetics of hybrid
L, Hall, G, Turnock, B J, Cox
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The Effect of Nocodazole on Cell Cycle Events in the Plasmodial Slime Mould Physarum Polycephalum [PDF]
Microbiology, 1987 SUMMARY: The action of nocodazole on nuclear morphology, DNA replication and thymidine (TdR) kinase activity has been examined in growing and starving plasmodia of the CL strain of Physarum polycephalum. In the growing plasmodium, nocodazole treatment more than 2 h before mitosis began prevented both mitosis and DNA replication from occurring at the ...
A. S. Mcclory, J. G. Coote
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