The availability of a comprehensive annotated database and a stock center together with the straightforward establishment of Dictyostelium cultures makes Dictyostelium a popular model organism for ...

Dictyostelium discoideum is a forest floor-dwelling amoeboid protozoan (slime mould) that serves as a model organism for studying cell biology, differentiation, chemotaxis and cell-cell interaction.

The cellular slime mold Dictyostelium discoideum is a soil microbe that produces diverse natural products with potential antibiotic activity. Previously, three chlorinated compounds had been detected ...

(Phys.org) —The amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum is the "favourite animal" for many biologists and some physicists: the unicellular organism, which usually lives in the soil, serves as a model for a ...

When starved of their food source and then presented with a chemoattractant signal like cAMP, individual Dictyostelium cells acquire a polarized morphology and aggregate to form a migrating stream.

Of all science's model organisms, none is as weird as Dictyostelium discoideum, a single-celled amoeba better known as slime mold. When they run out of food, millions coalesce into a single, slug-like ...

Species in the genus Dictyostelium are social amoebae that are sometimes referred to as slime molds (although they are actually protists). The single-celled, free-living amoeba makes its home in the ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Robyn Williams: Just as fascinating as snakes, although you'd need a microscope, is the slime mould, ...

Scoop up some dirt, and you’ll probably wind up with some slime mold. Many species go by the common name of slime mold, but the ones scientists know best belong to the genus Dictyostelium. They are ...

In times of plenty, the uni-cellular slime mold Dictyostelium discoideum leads a solitary life munching on bacteria littering the forest floor. But these simple creatures can perform heroic ...

The cellular slime mold Dictyostelium discoideum is a soil microbe that produces diverse natural products with potential antibiotic activity. Previously, three chlorinated compounds had been detected ...