Slime mold uses an externalized spatial "memory" to navigate in complex environments

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 43, 2012, Pages 17490-17494

  Reid, Chris R ^a   Latty, Tanya ^a   Dussutour, Audrey ^b   Beekman, Madeleine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b Université de Toulouse 3 Paul Sabatier   (France)

Author keywords

Amoeboid organism; Extracellular slime; Protist; Reactive navigation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOMASS; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; INOCULATION; MICROENVIRONMENT; NONHUMAN; PHYSARUM POLYCEPHALUM; PLASMODIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOPODIUM; ROBOTICS; SPATIAL MEMORY; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; SURFACE PROPERTY;

PHYSARUM POLYCEPHALUM; PSEUDOPODIA;

EID: 84867914787     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1215037109     Document Type: Article

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