Oscillations of calcium ion concentrations in Physarum polycephalum.
Open Access
- 1 April 1976
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Rockefeller University Press in The Journal of cell biology
- Vol. 69 (1), 223-226
- https://doi.org/10.1083/jcb.69.1.223
Abstract
Aequorin is a photoprotein which emits light in response to changes in free calcium concentration. When aequorin was microinjected into plasmodia of Physarum polycephalum, light emission varied in synchrony with the motile oscillations of the organisms. Therefore, movement is correlated which changes in the concentration of free calcium.This publication has 5 references indexed in Scilit:
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