Dictyostelium discoideum is a species of soil-dwelling amoeba belonging to the phylum Amoebozoa, infraphylum Mycetozoa. Commonly referred to as slime mold...

Hagiwara 1984 Dictyostelium dimigraformum Cavender 1970 Dictyostelium discoideum Raper 1935 Dictyostelium firmibasis Hagiwara 1971 Dictyostelium gargantuum...

amoebae. In Dictyostelium discoideum, aggregation is signalled by cAMP, but others use different chemicals. In the species Dictyostelium purpureum, the...

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...

dysentery, and the multicellular "social amoeba" or slime mould Dictyostelium discoideum. Amoeba do not have cell walls, which allows for free movement...

development; overexpression in effector sites in lethal. Essential in Dictyostelium discoideum. This is evidenced by severe developmental failure in deficient...

There are two strains of Pseudomonas fluorescens associated with Dictyostelium discoideum. One strain serves as a food source and the other strain does not...

antimicrobial activities. Keanumycin A is active against the amoebas Dictyostelium discoideum (IC50 = 4.4 nM), Acanthamoeba castellanii (IC50 = 2.0 μM), and...

history of life. Some organisms are partially unicellular, like Dictyostelium discoideum. Additionally, unicellular organisms can be multinucleate, like...

Models that provide insight on cheating include the social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum; eusocial insects, such as ants, bees, and wasps; and inter-specific...

advanced methods for genetic transformation and selection of genes. Dictyostelium discoideum is used in molecular biology and genetics, and is studied as an...

early evolutionary cell sorting, with application to slime mold Dictyostelium discoideum.” Journal of Theoretical Biology 469 (2019): 75–95 . Trenchard...

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...

in Macromycetozoa.[citation needed] Conosa includes the species Dictyostelium discoideum, a social amoeba, and Entamoeba histolytica, a human pathogen,...

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...

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...

PMC 3016996. PMID 20874599. "First of six chromosomes sequenced in Dictyostelium discoideum". Genome News Network. Retrieved 2009-04-29. Zhang Y, Cheng C,...

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...

share many specific functions with mammalian phagocytic cells. Dictyostelium discoideum, for example, is an amoeba that lives in the soil and feeds on...

homothallic mating. An analysis of meiosis-related genes in the Dictyostelium discoideum genome revealed that 36 of the 44 genes tested were present in...

single alpha helix (SAH) Myosin VII is required for phagocytosis in Dictyostelium discoideum, spermatogenesis in C. elegans and stereocilia formation in mice...

social insects until they made the switch to the social amoebae, Dictyostelium discoideum, in 1998. Elected Member, National Academy of Sciences, 2024 Fellow...

vacuoles per cell varies, depending on the species. Amoeba have one, Dictyostelium discoideum, Paramecium aurelia and Chlamydomonas reinhardtii have two, and...

much faster than professional phagocytes. For the soil amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum, their main food source is the bacteria Legionella pneumophila...

A migrating wild-type Dictyostelium discoideum cell whose boundary is colored by curvature. Scale bar: 5 μm....

coupled receptors. These receptors control development in Dictyostelium discoideum. In D. discoideum, the cyclic AMP receptors coordinate aggregation of individual...

palustris (Conosa: Archamoebae) Stemonitis sp. (Conosa: Myxogastria) Dictyostelium discoideum (Conosa: Dictyostelia) The oldest fossils are dated at 800 Mya...

spatial and temporal scales, for example the growth pattern of Dictyostelium discoideum, a soil-dwelling amoeba colony. In the BZ reaction, the size of...

reported, using a genetically altered strain of the slime mold Dictyostelium discoideum. Hirano bodies have been noted as a function of age without obvious...

acrasins to be identified was cyclic AMP, found in the species Dictyostelium discoideum by Brian Shaffer,[2] which exhibits a complex swirling-pulsating...