Responses of Dictyostelium discoideum to Multiple Environmental Stimuli

The movement responses of the cellular slime mold Dictyostelium discoideum to multiple stimuli were investigated. The responses were found to differ depending on the developmental stage of the organism. A novel response, positive gravitaxis, was found in Dictyostelium slugs but not in amoebae. In the presence of a simultaneous light stimulus, gravitaxis is effective only at low fluence rates. Slugs showed positive thermotaxis in a thermal gradient (0.2 °C cm^?1) and ignored the simultaneous light stimulus at low fluence rates (< 10^?3 W m^?2), while at higher fluence rates they moved toward the light source. With a combination of a thermal gradient and gravity Dictyostelium slugs clearly oriented thermotactically ignoring the gravistimulus.     

大网柄菌Dictyostelium magnum生活史的研究

为了了解网柄菌生活史循环的整个过程,显微观察了大网柄菌Dictyostelium magnum在双凹载玻片及水琼脂培养基上的完整生长循环,记录了大网柄菌生活史中各阶段,即孢子、黏变形体、集群、假原质团、拔顶、孢堆果及再次释放孢子的显著特征,整个生活循环历时2－3d。