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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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    album Physarum andinum Physarum bivalve Physarum bogoriense Physarum cinereum Physarum citrinum Physarum compressum Physarum confertum Physarum conglomeratum...
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    variety of behaviors otherwise seen in animals with brains. Species such as Physarum polycephalum have been used to simulate traffic networks. Some species...
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    Physarum cinereum is a slime mold that grows on turfgrass or beet[citation needed] but is not a pathogen. The species was originally named Lycoperdon cinereum...
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  • Physarum aeneum is a slime mould species from the order Physarida. It is one of a few slime moulds mainly common in the tropics and subtropics. The plasmodium...
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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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    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...
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    wrinkles and folds. Similar species include Hemitrichia calyculata, Physarum cinereum, Physarum nutans, and Trichia varia. Staurosporine analogues: Lycogarubin...
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  • into mitosis had been previously obtained in 1966 using the slime mold Physarum polycephalum in which the nuclei of the multi-nucleate plasmodial form...
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    differentiation, and may provide insights into how multicellular organisms develop. Physarum polycephalum are useful for studying cytoplasmic streaming. They have also...
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  • The Blob (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...
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    aethalia. Slime moulds with plasmodiocarps including Physarum aeneum, Physarum bivalve, Physarum lateritium, Diderma effusum, Physarella oblonga, Willkommlangea...
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    one square metre; however, in 1987 one artificially cultivated cell of Physarum polycephalum attained a surface area of 5.5 sq m. Myxogastria species have...
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    Xenopus TTAGGG Filamentous fungi Neurospora crassa TTAGGG Slime moulds Physarum, Didymium TTAGGG Dictyostelium AG(1-8) Kinetoplastid protozoa Trypanosoma...
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    special in that it is cold-adapted. It was discovered in the slime mold Physarum flavicomum. Similar proteins (InterPro: IPR017001) are also found in archaea...
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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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    "Electron microscopic studies on the Silver-stained Nucleolar Cycle of Physarum Polycephalum" (PDF). Acta Botanica Sinica. 43 (7): 680–5. Archived from...
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    species: 14% of cytosines are methylated in Arabidopsis thaliana, 4% to 8% in Physarum, 7.6% in Mus musculus, 2.3% in Escherichia coli, 0.03% in Drosophila; methylation...
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    organisms that 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...
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    Mastigamoeba, Mastigina, Phreatamoeba,Mastigella, Pelomyxa, Dictyostelium, Physarum incertae sedis Stereomyxa Lobose pseudopods (Lobosa) are blunt, and there...
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  • which includes species like Physarum polycephalum, also exhibit cryptogenes in their mitochondria. Mitochondrial genes in Physarum polycephalum: The mitochondrial...
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    When presented with a spatial configuration of food sources, the amoeboid Physarum polycephalum adapts its morphology to create an efficient path between...
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  • consumption, 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...
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  • M, 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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    discovered and studied by Windbichler et al., 2007 and Galizi et al., 2014 (a Physarum polycephalum homing endonuclease which destroys X chromosomes), Windbichler...
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  • practical uses. Atsushi Tero has led research on slime molds, specifically Physarum polycephalum. With Toshiyuki Nakagaki and other researchers, he researched...
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  • the species formerly contained in it have been divided among the genera Physarum, Stemonitis and Didymium. Julia Walochnik; Rolf Michel; Horst Aspöck (2004)...
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  • experiments have used them to approximate motorway graphs. The slime mould Physarum polycephalum is able to compute high-quality approximate solutions to the...
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  • cytokinesis, found in some species of algae and fungi, e.g. Vaucheria and Physarum. coenzyme A relatively small, independent molecule which associates with...
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    family Didymiaceae, first described by Lewis David de Schweinitz in 1832 as Physarum effusum, and transferred to the genus, Diderma, in 1894 by Andrew Price...
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