Physarum polycephalum
Emergence of self organized amoeboid movement in a multi agent approximation of Physarum polycephalum
... mould Physarum polycephalum, is a suitable candidate organism which meets both criteria; ...P. polycephalum is an attractive biological candidate medium for emergent motive force because the basic ...
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Mechanisms inducing parallel computation in a model of physarum polycephalum transport networks
... mould Physarum polycephalum dynamically adapts its body plan in response to changing environmental conditions and its proto- plasmic transport network is used to distribute nutrients within the ...P. ...
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Geographic information system (GIS)-based image analysis for assessing growth of Physarum polycephalum on a solid medium
... P. polycephalum is characterized by a distinc- tive multinucleate trophic (feeding) stage called a plas- ...P. polycephalum occurs on decaying plant material and the fruiting bodies of wood- decaying fungi ...
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Theory of Time-Resolved Somatic Complementation and Its Use to Explore the Sporulation Control Network in Physarum polycephalum
... Mutants of Physarum polycephalum can be complemented by fusion of plasmodial cells followed by cytoplasmic mixing. Complementation between strains carrying different mutational defects in the sporula- tion ...
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On the role of the plasmodial cytoskeleton in facilitating intelligent behavior in slime mold physarum polycephalum
... mold Physarum polycephalum’ s vegetative life cycle stage, the plasmodium (plural plasmodia, ...P. polycephalum’ s innate behavior patterns may be manipulated experimentally to perform useful ...
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Sensory fusion in Physarum polycephalum and implementing multi sensory functional computation
... P. polycephalum is also capable of computing Boolean logic AND, OR and NOT gates (Tsuda et ...cascaded Physarum polycephalum gates (Adamatzky, 2010b; Jones and Adamatzky, 2010; Schumann and ...
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On attraction of slime mould Physarum polycephalum to plants with sedative properties
... Physarum polycephalum belongs to the species of order Physarales, subclass Myxo- gastromycetidae, class Myxomycetes, division Myxostelida. It is commonly known as a true, acellular or multi-headed slime ...
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Analysis of the volatiles in the headspace above the plasmodium and sporangia of the slime mould (Physarum polycephalum) by SPME GCMS
... Figure 1. Chromatograms showing the volatiles detected in the headspace above the plasmodial stage (a: slime mould extracted at 75 ₀ C for 1h, b: slime mould extracted at 35 ₀ C for 3h) and post sporulation phase (c: ...
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Studies on the plasma membrane and associated filaments in Physarum polycephalum
... STUDIES ON THE PLASMA MEMBRANE AND ASSOCIATED FILAMENTS IN PHYSARUM POLYCEPHALUM by 0 0 IRVING A th esis submitted for the degr ee of Master of Science in The Australian National University Dec ember,[.] ...
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Rapid, Selective Digestion of Mitochondrial DNA in Accordance With the matA Hierarchy of Multiallelic Mating Types in the Mitochondrial Inheritance of Physarum polycephalum
... protist Physarum polycephalum were stained with DAPI, the fluores- cence of mtDNA in half of the mitochondria decreased simultaneously to give small spots and then disappeared completely ...
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Characterization of tectonins I and II from Physarum polycephalum
... in Physarum polycephalum cells were examined at both the protein and mRNA ...P. polycephalum, the plasmodia, microplasmodia, and sclerotia contained both tectonin I and tectonin II; the spores did ...
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Blumenthal, Florian (2002): Totalsynthese von 13 C-markierten Physarorubinsäuren A und B aus dem Schleimpilz Physarum polycephalum (Myxomycetes). Dissertation, LMU München: Fakultät für Chemie und Pharmazie
... von Physarum polycephalum zur Verfügung, mit denen untersucht werden kann, ob der Biosynthesevorschlag einer Diels-Alder-Reaktion zur Bildung der Polycephaline tatsächlich ...von Physarum ...
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Physarum polycephalum: Towards a biological controller
... organism Physarum polycephalum is a slime mould, which has demonstrated many novel and interesting properties in the field of unconventional computation, such as route mapping between nutrient sources, maze ...
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Influences on the formation and evolution of Physarum polycephalum inspired emergent transport networks
... organism Physarum polycephalum efficiently constructs and minimises dynamical nutrient transport networks resembling proximity graphs in the Toussaint ...of Physarum-like transport networks which ...
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A HOMOTHALLIC STRAIN OF THE MYXOMYCETE PHYSARUM POLYCEPHALUM
... Crossing was also proved between amoebae capable of plasmodium formation in clones when progeny of the cross C50 x B174 carrying different f alleles were mixed an[r] ...
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GENETIC ANALYSIS IN THE COLONIA STRAIN OF PHYSARUM POLYCEPHALUM: HETEROTHALLIC STRAINS THAT MATE WITH AND ARE PARTIALLY ISOGENIC TO THE COLONIA STRAIN
... (Strain CH9 is a n amoebal-plasmodial-trans- ition mutant of Colonia that has the genotype mth aptl, does not f o r m plasmodia in clones, crosses reliably with heterothallic [r] ...
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TWO MULTIALLELIC MATING COMPATIBILITY LOCI SEPARATELY REGULATE ZYGOTE FORMATION AND ZYGOTE DIFFERENTIATION IN THE MYXOMYCETE PHYSARUM POLYCEPHALUM
... To summarize our present knowledge concerning the functions of matA and matB: diploids form in mixtures of strains carrying different matB alleles, whether or not the stra[r] ...
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Towards slime mould chemical sensor: Mapping chemical inputs onto electrical potential dynamics of Physarum Polycephalum
... When the experiment is set up as shown in Fig. 1 (b), the recording can commence; recording is made and visualised simultaneously on screen in order to observe the oscillation of the protoplasmic tube. Depending on the ...
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The effects of heat shock on development and protein synthesis of the myxomycete, Physarum polycephalum : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Microbiology at Massey University
... To determine whether Phy/2a~um responds to heat shock with the changes in protein synthesis typical of D~o/2ophila and, if so, whether this response is independant of developmental state[r] ...
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The effects of heat shock on development and protein synthesis of the myxomycete, Physarum polycephalum : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Microbiology at Massey University
... To determine whether Phy/2a~um responds to heat shock with the changes in protein synthesis typical of D~o/2ophila and, if so, whether this response is independant of developmental state[r] ...
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