Assessing the chemotaxis behavior of Physarum polycephalum to a range of simple volatile organic chemicals

Communicative and Integrative Biology

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  De Lacy Costello, Ben P J ^a   Adamatzky, Andrew I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chemotaxis; Physarum polycephalum; Plasmodium; Terpenesplasmodium; Volatile organic compounds (VOCs)

Indexed keywords

EID: 84884681442     PISSN: 19420889     EISSN: 19420889     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/cib.25030     Document Type: Article

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