Slime mold formation

A starved cell population of ~200 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.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• biophysics
• cell
• signaling
• amoeba
• chemotaxis
• dictyostelium
• microscopy

[tpr0317]

I may be the only person who thinks so, but there definitely are not enough slime mold videos on youtube. Pseudopodia rule!

[punchyouintheface]

I think anyone with interest in reactive systems would find this to be pretty amazing, I'm not a biologist but the logic of swarming systems as an organizational device has a lot of further implications

[mcddna]

You are not the only one! Youtube needs more slime mould videos...cellular, acellular, any kind of myxomycota will do!

[danbison]

@tpr0317 I totally agree!

[CoDpyro]

im not like a biologist so all i see is a bunch of little dots like moving around in a big circle like thing until they all come together

[KinkyJesus]

They're not mushrooms:P.

[agpshadow]

ZZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzz

[TrippyFavs]

i am no biologist and i appreciate slime molds... EAT SHROOMS!!

[grasthube]

no you are not the only one...

but you need to be a biologist to appreciate this i think...

the power of cAMP...

[antichay]

Fascinating phenomenon!