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SUBMITTER: Fleig P
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8782570 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Fleig Philipp P Kramar Mirna M Wilczek Michael M Alim Karen K
eLife 20220121
What is the origin of behaviour? Although typically associated with a nervous system, simple organisms also show complex behaviours. Among them, the slime mold <i>Physarum polycephalum</i>, a giant single cell, is ideally suited to study emergence of behaviour. Here, we show how locomotion and morphological adaptation behaviour emerge from self-organized patterns of rhythmic contractions of the actomyosin lining of the tubes making up the network-shaped organism. We quantify the spatio-temporal ...[more]