Mycosmos January 2014 | Page 4

Japanese researchers found that the phenomenon of capacity of storage and the mode of recurrence there is not only at superior animals, but there is also on single-celled slime mold!

In their experiments the biophysical researchers of Hokkaido University influenced the development environment of Physarum amoebas.

Likely result : collaborative development, plurality of individual cells grown in the form of a network.

Hokkaido University

Slime mold shows a form of "memory"

Trichia decipiens (Pers.) T. Macbr -Photo Zissis Antonopoulos

Arcyria cinerea (Bull.) Pers. Photo Zissis Antonopoulos

Physarum cf. melleum, Photo Dario Dal Fante