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* [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 | ||
+ | * [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 22:33, 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).
- Plasmodial slime molds = giant cells, single cells with thousands of nuclei fused flagellated cells
- Cellular slime molds = mostly found as separate single-celled amoeboid protists, but can swarm with chemical signals
- Labyrinthulomycota, called slime moulds, but are not related to 1 and 2
Resources
- dictybase where you can find genomes, protocols and other resources
- A Simple Method of Growing the Plasmodial Slime Mold written for Physarum polycephalum