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A close look at amoeboid locomotion: An integrated picture of a migrating, starvation-induced foraging unit of Physarum polycephalum

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BICT'15: Proceedings of the 9th EAI International Conference on Bio-inspired Information and Communications Technologies (formerly BIONETICS)

Pages 602 - 604

https://doi.org/10.4108/eai.3-12-2015.2262491

Published: 24 May 2016 Publication History

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Physarum polycephalum, cultivated on a glucose-deficient agar surface, forms disconnected foraging units (satellites). Our aim is to shed light onto the amoeboid locomotion of the slime mould, using satellites as reproducible and well-defined models and employing a wide range of techniques. This work was presented at PhysNet 2015.

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BICT'15: Proceedings of the 9th EAI International Conference on Bio-inspired Information and Communications Technologies (formerly BIONETICS)

May 2016

618 pages

ISBN:9781631901003

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Junichi Suzuki
Associate Professor, Dept of Comp. Science, University of Massachusetts, Boston, 10 Morrissey Blvd., Boston, MA 02125, USA
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Tadashi Nakano
Associate Professor, Osaka University, 1-3 Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan
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Henry Hess
Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University, 351L Engineering Terrace, MC 8904, 1210 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY 10027

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Published: 24 May 2016

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