Abstract
Plasmodial strands of the slime mold physarum exhibit rhythmic mechanical contractions. These contractions drive an alternating flow of cytoplasm, so-called “shuttle streaming”, which underlies the movement of the Plasmodium. Here we construct a mechanical model of the plasmodial cytogel which can mimic the periodic mechanical and chemical behavior of the plasmodial rhythms.
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Oster, G.F., Odell, G.M. (1984). A Mechanochemical Model for Plasmodial Oscillations in Physarum . In: Jäger, W., Murray, J.D. (eds) Modelling of Patterns in Space and Time. Lecture Notes in Biomathematics, vol 55. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-45589-6_24
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