Sentences with phrase «of social amoebae»

Liliana Malinovska (Alberti, MPG)-- «Specific adaptations in the proteostasis network of the social amoebae Dictyostelium discoideum lead to an unusual resilience to protein aggregation» (2014)

This is a slug made up of social amoebae.

When confronted with invading bacteria, cells within the multicellular slug stage of the social amoeba (Dictyostelium discoideum) immediately seek to kill them, casting extracellular traps made of DNA nets studded with antimicrobial granules.

Not exact matches

Like many in the biology field, Jacobus Boomsma of the University of Copenhagen's Center for Social Evolution was surprised to learn of the bacteria - farming amoebae.

The researchers focused their study on a certain type of amoeba, the most well - known of protozoa: the «social amoeba» or Physarum polycephalum.

In studies in the laboratory, researchers from Baylor and the University of Geneva found that sentinel cells in the multi-cellular social amoeba slug use a form of toll - like receptor (that recognizes molecules from the microbes), as well as an enzyme called NADPH oxidase, in order to form these extracellular nets.

By genetically modifying the social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum, the microbiologists from UNIGE are able to conduct all sorts of experiments on the mechanisms of the innate immune system.

Microbiologists from the University of Geneva (UNIGE), Switzerland, have just discovered that a social amoeba, a unicellular microorganism living in the soils of temperate forests, also uses both these mechanisms, and has done so for over a billion years.

Check a review on integrative view of cell cycle control in E. coli by L. Dewachter, an article on the return of cultures in microbiology by V. Marx, an article on microbial altruism and cheating in social amoebas by S. Noh.

Previous reports have shown that some organisms, such as the social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum, preferentially adhere to clonemates and promote aggregation of genotypes during collective movement [81].

... It will be a gathering of those from the top of society — «psychotherapists, social researchers, climate change activists, eco-psychologists» — who will analyse those at the bottom of society, as if we were so many flitting, irrational amoeba under an eco-microscope.