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ArticleMethods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.)2022

Studying Protista WBR and Repair Using Physarum polycephalum.

Megan M Sperry, Nirosha J Murugan, Michael Levin

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Article in Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.), 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Megan M SperryWyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA.
Nirosha J MuruganDepartment of Biology, Algoma University, Sault Ste. Marie, ON, Canada. nirosha.murugan@algomau.ca.
Michael LevinWyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA. michael.levin@tufts.edu.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Physarum polycephalum is a protist slime mould that exhibits a high degree of responsiveness to its environment through a complex network of tubes and cytoskeletal components that coordinate behavior across its unicellular, multinucleated body. Physarum has been used to study decision making, problem solving, and mechanosensation in aneural biological systems. The robust generative and repair capacities of Physarum also enable the study of whole-body regeneration within a relatively simple model system. Here we describe methods for growing, imaging, quantifying, and sampling Physarum that are adapted for investigating regeneration and repair.

Indexed as

Physarum polycephalumAdaptation, PhysiologicalModels, BiologicalExtractInjuryNetworksRegenerationSignalingSlime mould

Identifiers

PMID35359302
PMCPMC9761523

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