How the slime mould gets organised
Tuesday, March 15, 2011 - 16:10
in Biology & Nature
The so-called cellular slime mould, a unicellular organism that may transition into a multicellular organism under stress, has just been found to have a tissue structure that was previously thought to exist only in more sophisticated animals. What's more, two proteins that are needed by the slime mould to form this structure are similar to those that perform the same function in more sophistical animals...