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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Inspiring scientific wonder, curiosity and critical thinking in young minds: an interview with Audrey Dussutour [PDF]
Communications BiologyAudrey Dussutour is a Research Director at the National Center for Scientific Research (Toulouse, France), specializing in the adaptive behaviors of ants and slime molds. She has authored over 70 scientific papers and four award-winning science books. Dr.
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Novel antibodies detect nucleocytoplasmic O-fucose in protist pathogens, cellular slime molds, and plants [PDF]
mSphereCellular adaptations to change often involve post-translational modifications of nuclear and cytoplasmic proteins. An example found in protists and plants is the modification of serine and threonine residues of dozens to hundreds of nucleocytoplasmic ...
Megna Tiwari +11 more
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Precarious development: the uncertain social life of cellular slime molds. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2015 Rainey PB.
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Fitness tradeoffs between spores and nonaggregating cells can explain the coexistence of diverse genotypes in cellular slime molds. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2015 Tarnita CE +4 more
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Eumycetozoa = Amoebozoa?: SSUrDNA phylogeny of protosteloid slime molds and its significance for the amoebozoan supergroup. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2009 Amoebae that make fruiting bodies consisting of a stalk and spores and classified as closely related to the myxogastrids have classically been placed in the taxon Eumycetozoa.
Lora L Shadwick +4 more
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New mid-Cretaceous cryptic slime mold beetles and the early evolution of Sphindidae (Coleoptera: Cucujoidea) [PDF]
Arthropod Systematics & Phylogeny, 2021 The cryptic slime mold beetles, Sphindidae, are a moderately diverse cucujoid beetle family, whose members are obligately tied to slime molds throughout their life.
Yan-Da Li +4 more
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Substrate and cell fusion influence on slime mold network dynamics
Scientific Reports, 2021 The acellular slime mold Physarum polycephalum provides an excellent model to study network formation, as its network is remodelled constantly in response to mass gain/loss and environmental conditions.
Fernando Patino-Ramirez +2 more
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Distribution and diversity of myxomycetes in Tiantangzhai National Forest Park, China [PDF]
PeerJ, 2021 Although myxomycetes are ubiquitous in terrestrial ecosystems, studies on their distribution and diversity in subtropical humid forests are still lacking.
Min Li +6 more
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