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 ...
John Bonner, the George M. Moffett Professor of Biology, Emeritus, whose influential work with cellular slime molds shed light on the mechanisms of microbial life and illuminated the behavior of cells ...
THE life cycle of the cellular slime mould Dictyostelium discoideum has two mutually exclusive phases. In the first, feeding, phase the organism exists as solitary myxamoebae; and in the second, ...