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==Resources==
 
==Resources==
 
* [http://dictybase.org/ dictybase] where you can find genomes, protocols and other resources
 
* [http://dictybase.org/ dictybase] where you can find genomes, protocols and other resources
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* [http://www.buildingthepride.com/faculty/pgdavison/PHYSARUM%20culture%20for%20web.html A Simple Method of Growing the Plasmodial Slime Mold] written for Physarum polycephalum

Revision as of 21:33, 7 June 2018

Slime Moulds have gotten a lot of attention of their ability to find optimised transport maps, but what are they???

What is a Slime Mould?

First they are NOT fungi - although for a long time, they were thought to be fungi because their life cycle resemble each other.

They are protists.

What is a protist?

There are 3 groups of organisms commonly called slime moulds, but they do not share a common ancestor (a clade).

  1. Plasmodial slime molds = giant cells, single cells with thousands of nuclei fused flagellated cells
  2. Cellular slime molds = mostly found as separate single-celled amoeboid protists, but can swarm with chemical signals
  3. Labyrinthulomycota, called slime moulds, but are not related to 1 and 2


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