Researchers investigate how some bacteria fight back against one of their predators: Amoebas.
Chemotaxis
Bacteria sense degraded polysaccharides as a signal for nutrient exhaustion.
Toxic D-amino acids trigger an escape response in Vibrio cholerae.
Researchers discover a new type of swimming movement that boosts an efficient spread of Pseudomonas aeruginosa, an opportunistic human pathogen.
Memory is generally used to describe behavior in organisms with a nervous system. However, a slime mold is capable of encoding the location of (past) food sources in its tube-like body!
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