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    Physarum polycephalum, an acellular slime mold or myxomycete popularly known as "the blob", is a protist with diverse cellular forms and broad geographic...
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    mortonii Physarum mutabile Physarum nigripodum Physarum nucleatum Physarum oblatum Physarum plicatum Physarum polycephalum Physarum psittacinum Physarum pulcherrimum...
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    species is caused by pressure gradients along the length of the cell. Physarum polycephalum is a single-celled protist, belonging to a group of organisms informally...
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    behaviors otherwise seen in animals with brains. Species such as Physarum polycephalum have been used to simulate traffic networks. Some species have traditionally...
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  • Physarum polycephalum ribonuclease (EC 3.1.26.1) is an enzyme. This enzyme catalyses the following chemical reaction Endonucleolytic cleavage to 5'-phosphomonoester...
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    silencing. TMV is inhibited by a product of the myxomycete slime mold Physarum polycephalum. Both tobacco and the beans P. vulgaris and V. sinensis suffered...
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    Ohta J (1984). "A novel acid protease from haploid amoebae of Physarum polycephalum, and its changes during mating and subsequent differentiation into...
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    square metre; however, in 1987 one artificially cultivated cell of Physarum polycephalum attained a surface area of 5.5 sq m. Myxogastria species have numerous...
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    are not multicellular, the largest are the slime molds, such as Physarum polycephalum, some of which can reach a diameter over 30 cm (12 in). These organisms...
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  • (Pacific Ocean), a mass of warm water in the Pacific 2013–2016 Physarum polycephalum, or the blob, a slime mold The Blob (Antarctica), a knoll on the...
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  • Holler E (July 2005). "Use of the giant multinucleate plasmodium of Physarum polycephalum to study RNA interference in the myxomycete". Analytical Biochemistry...
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  • mitosis had been previously obtained in 1966 using the slime mold Physarum polycephalum in which the nuclei of the multi-nucleate plasmodial form undergo...
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    cytosines. In contrast, DNA methylation is widely distributed in Physarum polycephalum where 5-methylcytosine makes up as much as 8% of total cytosine...
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  • have used them to approximate motorway graphs. The slime mould Physarum polycephalum is able to compute high-quality approximate solutions to the Traveling...
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    may provide insights into how multicellular organisms develop. Physarum polycephalum are useful for studying cytoplasmic streaming. They have also been...
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    "Electron microscopic studies on the Silver-stained Nucleolar Cycle of Physarum Polycephalum" (PDF). Acta Botanica Sinica. 43 (7): 680–5. Archived from the original...
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    of creating music. In 2015 a lecturer played a piano duet with a physarum polycephalum slime mould, in 2018 brain waves recorded during seizures were turned...
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  • found in the form of ATP in biological systems. The slime mold Physarum polycephalum is also growing as a network, where motion inside is driven an active...
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  • have used them to approximate motorway graphs. The slime mould Physarum polycephalum is able to solve the Traveling Salesman Problem, a combinatorial...
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    studied by Windbichler et al., 2007 and Galizi et al., 2014 (a Physarum polycephalum homing endonuclease which destroys X chromosomes), Windbichler et...
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    microbial art include Euglena gracilis (photosynthetic, green) and Physarum polycephalum (yellow–green). A technique called "bacteriography" involves selectively...
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    anticipates the next pulse similar to the behavior of slime molds Physarum polycephalum where the viscosity of channels in the cytoplasm responds to periodic...
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    on the structure and function of chromatin from the slime mould Physarum polycephalum. Davies's research group has an international reputation for work...
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    presented with a spatial configuration of food sources, the amoeboid Physarum polycephalum adapts its morphology to create an efficient path between the food...
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    containing the species Dictyostelium discoideum (a dictyostelid), Physarum polycephalum (a myxogastrid) and Ceratiomyxa fruticulosa (a protosporangiid)...
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  • 1930. The title of his doctoral research was "The Life History of Physarum polycephalum" (Howard, 1931) with George Willard Martin as his advisor. Howard...
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  • includes species like Physarum polycephalum, also exhibit cryptogenes in their mitochondria. Mitochondrial genes in Physarum polycephalum: The mitochondrial...
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    Periodicity of Cytoplasmic Streaming in the Acellular Slime Mold 'Physarum polycephalum'" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on March 4, 2023. Retrieved...
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    1978, pp. 219-222. A. Adamatzky, "Developing proximity graphs by physarum polycephalum : Does the plasmodium follow the Toussaint hierarchy," Parallel...
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    various biological samples including frog eggs, fruit flies, and Physarum polycephalum slime molds. Bacteria, fungi and shrimp eggs were exposed to cosmic...
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