Chapter 3 Mitotic Synchrony in the Plasmodia of Physarum polycephalum and Mitotic Synchronization by Coalescence of Microplasmodia1
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2020, BioSystemsCitation Excerpt :This makes Physarum a popular model organism in biology, biophysics (Oettmeier et al., 2017), and computer science (Ntinas et al., 2017; Adamatzky, 2010). Due to the continuous, vigorous streaming and mixing of the suspending cytoplasm the nuclei of a plasmodial cell display natural synchrony in cell cycle and differentiation (Guttes and Guttes, 1961, 1964; Hoffmann et al., 2012; Rusch et al., 1966; Sachsenmaier et al., 1972; Sauer et al., 1969; Starostzik and Marwan, 1995a). Developmental synchrony is also evident through the response to threshold stimulation, where the developmental decision to sporulation is all or none for each individual plasmodium (Starostzik and Marwan, 1994, 1995a; 1998) and, well after commitment, through the simultaneous conversion of the plasmodial mass into fruiting bodies (Hoffmann et al., 2012; Sauer et al., 1969).
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This work was supported in part by grants from the National Cancer Institute (No. C-3584) and the Alexander and Margaret Stewart Fund to Professor Dr. H. P. Rusch, McArdle Memorial Laboratory, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin; and by NIH Grant GM-8495 to the authors.