Dictyostelium discoideum is a species of soil-dwelling amoeba belonging to the phylum Amoebozoa, infraphylum Mycetozoa. Commonly referred to as slime mold...
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Hagiwara 1984 Dictyostelium dimigraformum Cavender 1970 Dictyostelium discoideum Raper 1935 Dictyostelium firmibasis Hagiwara 1971 Dictyostelium gargantuum...
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amoebae. In Dictyostelium discoideum, aggregation is signalled by cAMP, but others use different chemicals. In the species Dictyostelium purpureum, the...
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dysentery, and the multicellular "social amoeba" or slime mould Dictyostelium discoideum. Amoeba do not have cell walls, which allows for free movement...
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themselves to become a dead stalk, lifting the spores up into the air. Dictyostelium discoideum is a microscopic organism. The cells can aggregate to form a grex...
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Ras GTPase (section Dictyostelium discoideum)
development; overexpression in effector sites in lethal. Essential in Dictyostelium discoideum. This is evidenced by severe developmental failure in deficient...
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There are two strains of Pseudomonas fluorescens associated with Dictyostelium discoideum. One strain serves as a food source and the other strain does not...
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antimicrobial activities. Keanumycin A is active against the amoebas Dictyostelium discoideum (IC50 = 4.4 nM), Acanthamoeba castellanii (IC50 = 2.0 μM), and...
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history of life. Some organisms are partially unicellular, like Dictyostelium discoideum. Additionally, unicellular organisms can be multinucleate, like...
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advanced methods for genetic transformation and selection of genes. Dictyostelium discoideum is used in molecular biology and genetics, and is studied as an...
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full-length cDNA libraries of small RNAs (sRNA) from the social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum. The RNAs are 59–60 nucleotides in length. A Northern blot analysis...
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Models that provide insight on cheating include the social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum; eusocial insects, such as ants, bees, and wasps; and inter-specific...
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sequencing approach of full-length cDNA libraries from small RNAs from Dictyostelium discoideum. The function of this RNA is unknown, but it bears some resemblance...
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in Macromycetozoa.[citation needed] Conosa includes the species Dictyostelium discoideum, a social amoeba, and Entamoeba histolytica, a human pathogen,...
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activate small Ras-like GTPase proteins, such as Rap1. In the species Dictyostelium discoideum, cAMP acts outside the cell as a secreted signal. The chemotactic...
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single alpha helix (SAH) Myosin VII is required for phagocytosis in Dictyostelium discoideum, spermatogenesis in C. elegans and stereocilia formation in mice...
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Smith SS, Rather DI (July 1991). "Lack of 5-methylcytosine in Dictyostelium discoideum DNA". The Biochemical Journal. 277 (1): 273–275. doi:10.1042/bj2770273...
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homothallic mating. An analysis of meiosis-related genes in the Dictyostelium discoideum genome revealed that 36 of the 44 genes tested were present in...
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PMC 3016996. PMID 20874599. "First of six chromosomes sequenced in Dictyostelium discoideum". Genome News Network. Retrieved 2009-04-29. Zhang Y, Cheng C,...
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social insects until they made the switch to the social amoebae, Dictyostelium discoideum, in 1998. Elected Member, National Academy of Sciences, 2024 Fellow...
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early evolutionary cell sorting, with application to slime mold Dictyostelium discoideum.” Journal of Theoretical Biology 469 (2019): 75–95 . Trenchard...
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share many specific functions with mammalian phagocytic cells. Dictyostelium discoideum, for example, is an amoeba that lives in the soil and feeds on...
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palustris (Conosa: Archamoebae) Stemonitis sp. (Conosa: Myxogastria) Dictyostelium discoideum (Conosa: Dictyostelia) The oldest fossils are dated at 800 Mya...
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vacuoles per cell varies, depending on the species. Amoeba have one, Dictyostelium discoideum, Paramecium aurelia and Chlamydomonas reinhardtii have two, and...
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A migrating wild-type Dictyostelium discoideum cell whose boundary is colored by curvature. Scale bar: 5 μm....
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acrasins to be identified was cyclic AMP, found in the species Dictyostelium discoideum by Brian Shaffer,[2] which exhibits a complex swirling-pulsating...
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coupled receptors. These receptors control development in Dictyostelium discoideum. In D. discoideum, the cyclic AMP receptors coordinate aggregation of individual...
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aIF6 and Saccharomyces cerevisiae eIF6, and from the eIF6 from Dictyostelium discoideum. These alpha/beta barrels are commonly occurring motifs constructed...
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spatial and temporal scales, for example the growth pattern of Dictyostelium discoideum, a soil-dwelling amoeba colony. In the BZ reaction, the size of...
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eukaryotic cells are observed to migrate similarly. The amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum is useful to researchers because they consistently exhibit chemotaxis...
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