slime mould
Schlauschleimer in Reichsautobahnen: Slime mould imitates motorway network in Germany
... the slime mould and autobahn graphs in ...the slime mould on sources of nutrients, representing major urban areas of Germany, are discussed in ...The slime mould and autobahn ...
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On the development of slime mould morphological, intracellular and heterotic computing devices
... in slime mould such as the self-organised formation and adaptation of the plasmodial network, network coarsening dynamics, pseudopodium extension and withdrawal, estab- lishment and maintenance of shuttle ...
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Bio development of motorway network in the Netherlands: A slime mould approach
... biological-approximation, or evaluation, of man-made road networks was done in our previous work on approximation of United Kingdom motorways and Mexican Federal highways by plasmodium of Physarum polycephalum [8,11]. In ...
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The world's colonization and trade routes formation as imitated by slime mould
... The slime mould’s protoplasmic network is responsible for transportation of nutrients and metabolites, and intra-cellular ...the slime mould imitation of the UK motorways, and Tero and colleagues ...
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On attraction of slime mould Physarum polycephalum to plants with sedative properties
... The plasmodium is a network of biochemical oscillators (Matsumoto et al., 1980; Nak- agaki et al., 1999). Waves of excitation or contraction originate from several sources, e.g. induced by external stimuli and ...
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On the role of calcium during chemotactic signalling and differentiation of the cellular slime mould Dictyostelium discoideum
... Int J De" BioI 40 135 139 (1996) 135 On the role of calcium during chemotactic signalling and differentiation of the cellular slime mould Dictyostelium discoideum DIETER MALCHOW', RUPERT MUTZEL and CH[.] ...
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A morphological adaptation approach to path planning inspired by slime mould
... We have demonstrated how unconventional computation of path planning problems may be performed directly in 2D space by morphological adaptation in a virtual material inspired by the adaptation of slime ...
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Approximation of statistical analysis and estimation by morphological adaptation in a model of slime mould
... True slime mould Physarum polycephalum approximates a range of complex computations via growth and adaptation of its proto- plasmic transport network, stimulating a large body of recent research into how ...
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Individual and collective behaviour in cellular slime mould development: contributions of John Bonner (1920 2019)
... evolutionary standpoint. He was ingenious in identifying analogies to the slime mould way of life. The range of organisms from which he drew them was astonishing. It went along with the conviction, ...
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Slime mould logic gates based on frequency changes of electrical potential oscillation
... Physarum polycephalum is a single celled organism visible by the unaided eye [1]. It can span several of centimetres in warm, dark and humid conditions, and has been discovered engulfing decomposing trees. When ...
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Towards a slime Mould FPGA interface
... interpreting slime mould behaviour ...A slime mould-computer interface is therefore a hypothetical possibility if the computer could be programmed to recognise the typical electrical responses ...
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Slime mould memristors
... Memristors [9] have revolutionised the material basis of computation [32, 36] and neuro- morphic architectures [30, 21, 28, 18]. Since the announcement of the first documented two-terminal memristor [32] researchers have ...
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Towards slime mould chemical sensor: Mapping chemical inputs onto electrical potential dynamics of Physarum Polycephalum
... with very weak attractants S(-)Limonene and Cis-3-Hexenyl Alcohol having almost no effect on either amplitude or frequency. Weak repellent Geraniol does not appear to affect frequency however has a notable reducing ...
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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
... (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: slime mould spores extracted at 75 ₀ C for 1h, d: ...
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Sclerotia of the acellular (true) slime mould Fuligo septica as a model to study melanization and anabiosis
... Our study directly and unambigously classed the third type of slime mould material as appropriate for EPR measurements. Besides spores and wet plasmodia or pellets of microplasmodia, sclerotia can easily be ...
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On hybrid circuits exploiting thermistive properties of slime mould
... Even though these resistances were high, the difference was sufficient for the behaviour to be interpreted as a NAND logic: outputs (voltage) are high when input (current) configuration is 〈 0, 0〉 , 〈 0, 1〉 , 〈 1, 0〉 ; ...
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Evolutionary Questions Raised by Cellular Slime Mould Development
... Very few studies have been carried out on the degree of genetic relatedness among cellular slime mould populations found in close proximity in the wild (Eisenberg 1976, Kaushik 2002, Fortunato et al. 2003) ...
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The Cells Founding Aggregation Centres in the Slime Mould Polysphondylium Violaceum
... In Raper's V6, both in ordinary plates and sandwich cultures, a centre was often started by a single, rounded cell; but if this was egregated repeatedly it usually soon failed to re-orga[r] ...
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Cyclins in the cellular slime mould Dictyostelium Discoideum
... Thus, the weak band o f the same size as in vitro translated nrcA bore the closest relation to a cell cycle protein with higher, constant expression during exponential growth and a [r] ...
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Mating and vegetative incompatibility in the cellular slime mould Dictyostelium discoideum
... 4 .H Cell cycle block Identity at the mating-type locus via a cross - over event 11' , a Attempts to overcome vegetative incompatibility and thus provide a system in which sexual and pa[r] ...
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