Size in Relation to the Rate of Migration in the Slime Mold Dictyostelium Discoideum
- 1 March 1953
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Mycologia
- Vol. 45 (2), 235-240
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00275514.1953.12024263
Abstract
SUMMARY In the amoeboid slime mold Dictyostelium discoideum, separate amoebae aggregate to form sausage-shaped migrating pseudoplasmodia. The rates of movement of these pseudoplasmodia were found to be proportional to their size. This was true even of individual pseudoplasmodia, for the longer one migrated the smaller it became and its rate decreased correspondingly. An hypothesis was presented, based on the principle of similitude, to the effect that migration movement was dependent on the total mass of amoebae, and not upon a superficial layer of specialized locomotory amoebae.This publication has 9 references indexed in Scilit:
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