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They received this prize with the discovery of slime molds being able to solve mazes. [7] Atsushi Tero won the Ig Nobel Prize with Toshiyuki Nakagaki, Seiji Takagi, Tetsu Saigusa, Kentaro Ito, Kenji Yumiki, Ryo Kobayashi, Dan Bebber, and Mark Fricker in Transportation Planning in 2010. They received this prize for using slime molds to depict ...
Using this research, Toshiyuki Nakagaki placed a slime mold in a recreation of Tokyo. The slime mimicked the Tokyo railway system without any prior knowledge of the railway. Nakagaki argues that any differences between the two are the result of human politics and that the slime mold may have made the railway more efficient. [9] Additionally ...
The film describes the life and development of the various types of slime molds with the aid of experts and artists involved in their study. [2] The directors involved Mark Pragnell, an amateur observer of slime mold who studies them in their natural element in the forest. Pragnell appears in several scenes in the film offering his observations ...
Physarum polycephalum, an acellular [1] slime mold or myxomycete popularly known as "the blob", [2] is a protist with diverse cellular forms and broad geographic distribution. The “acellular” moniker derives from the plasmodial stage of the life cycle : the plasmodium is a bright yellow macroscopic multinucleate coenocyte shaped in a ...
Brefeldia maxima is a species of non-parasitic plasmodial slime mold, and a member of the class Myxomycetes. It is commonly known as the tapioca slime mold because of its peculiar pure white, tapioca pudding-like appearance. [3] A common species with a worldwide distribution, particularly in North America and Europe. [4]
Life cycle. Dictyostelium discoideum is a species of soil-dwelling amoeba belonging to the phylum Amoebozoa, infraphylum Mycetozoa.Commonly referred to as slime mold, D. discoideum is a eukaryote that transitions from a collection of unicellular amoebae into a multicellular slug and then into a fruiting body within its lifetime.
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Swedish mycologist Elias Magnus Fries described numerous slime moulds as Myxogasteres in 1829. [5] Species in the class Myxogastria are colloquially known as plasmodial or acellular slime moulds. Some consider the Myxogastria a separate kingdom , with an unsettled phylogeny because of conflicting molecular and developmental data.