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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"slime mould"”.
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The Subjecthood of Slime Mould: modelling single-celled intelligence through living systems art
… created by Heather Barnett working with the slime mould, Physarum polycephalum, a single-celled amoeba employed as a model organism within a wide range of disciplinary domains. The Physarum Experiments is an ongoing multifaceted enquiry examining nonhuman subjecthood, producing outputs in the …
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A proposed role for the Ca ion in the chemotactic response of Physarum polycephalum
… membrane manifest themselves (especially with slime mould plasmodia) as waves of adhesion running across the undersurface of a cell and aid in movement. A working hypothesis, that encompasses the ideas of Durham, is that Ca⁺⁺ entry and efflux across the external membrane control such cellular …
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Computational aspects of cellular intelligence and their role in artificial intelligence.
… used to simulate aggregating cells based on the slime mould Dictyostelium discoideum. The Cytobots are shown to capture emergent behaviour arising from multiple stigmergic interactions. Applications of Cytobots within swarm robotics are investigated by applying them to benchmark search problems …
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Plasmodium falciparum protein kinase CK2
… and is essential to viability in yeast and slime mould (Padmanabha et al., 1990, Kikkawa et al., 1992). The human CK2 holoenzyme consists of two catalytic a or a’ subunits and two regulatory b subunits, and recent evidence indicates that the latter interact with several protein kinases in …
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The Evolution of Social Organisms: Modelling Reproduction Strategy
… organisms, I model the macrocyst stage in the slime mould Dictyostelium. I consider how the macrocyst stage may be an early example of collective reproduction in protozoa. Here individuals aggregate to be ingested by a central cell which produces homogeneous offspring. I assume that each …
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Models of self-organization in biological development
… of a model biological system, the cellular slime mould, which displays rudimentary development and has thus proved amenable to detailed study and modelling. The following two chapters form the core of the thesis, as they contain discussions of the detailed application of theoretical concepts …
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Models of self-organization in biological development
… of a model biological system, the cellular slime mould, which displays rudimentary development and has thus proved amenable to detailed study and modelling. The following two chapters form the core of the thesis, as they contain discussions of the detailed application of theoretical concepts …
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The study of ancient viral class II envelope fusion proteins within the viral retroelements of Nematoda and the nuclear plasmids of Dictyostelium
… circular, nuclear plasmids of the slime mold Dictyostelium. While these plasmids, specifically Ddp1 and Ddp5, have been used as transfer vectors in dictyostelid studies, their relation to known viruses has gone unrecognized. Like the env captured by the BEL/Pao LTR retrotransposons …