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Amoebae aggregation and slime mold formation

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Uploaded by on Jan 7, 2009

A starved cell population of ~250 Dictyostelium cells develops on agar to form a slime mold and eventually a fruiting body (latter not shown). Fluorescence microscopy is used to visualize a ubiquitously expressed GFP-fusion protein. The movie shows how the cells aggregate via chemotaxis and subsequently form a slime mold which crawls away.

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  • @wafflegirl well its always nice to meet a fellow geek. =D I actually was surprised to see someone else commenting on this. I thought I'd be the only one. Bio ftw.

  • @ahlegro me too! bio ftw :D

  • I think its facinating to watch all the cells come together to form a "slug" (thats the technical word for it) which goes off in search of food. But I'm a geek like that.

  • its pretty amazing :) thanks for sharing

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