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are there any edible slime molds in real world? i think this would be more interesting than maze-solving amoebs ;) --[[Special:Contributions/84.113.208.246|84.113.208.246]] 16:13, October 22, 2009 (UTC) | are there any edible slime molds in real world? i think this would be more interesting than maze-solving amoebs ;) --[[Special:Contributions/84.113.208.246|84.113.208.246]] 16:13, October 22, 2009 (UTC) | ||
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'''"Spores''' were collected from aethalia of the acellular slime mold Fuligo septica. The following components were identified in the spore cases at the relative amounts (percentage dry weight) indicated: | '''"Spores''' were collected from aethalia of the acellular slime mold Fuligo septica. The following components were identified in the spore cases at the relative amounts (percentage dry weight) indicated: | ||
Revision as of 13:10, 4 August 2010
please add total list of references, such as runoff from the nearby farm
Slime Mold news. On 2nd October 2008 the IgNobel Cognitive Science Prize was awarded to Toshiyuki Nakagaki of Hokkaido University, Japan, Hiroyasu Yamada of Nagoya, Japan, Ryo Kobayashi of Hiroshima University, Atsushi Tero of Presto JST, Akio Ishiguro of Tohoku University, and Ágotá Tóth of the University of Szeged, Hungary for discovering that slime molds can solve puzzles in their seminal work: "Intelligence: Maze-Solving by an Amoeboid Organism."--PeterGFin 16:52, October 2, 2009 (UTC)
are there any edible slime molds in real world? i think this would be more interesting than maze-solving amoebs ;) --84.113.208.246 16:13, October 22, 2009 (UTC)
- Because they are so gooey and gross, every assumption is that they are indeed poison. They are liable to accumulate metal from their substrates. Quick research shows that they contain a lot of galactosamine amino sugar which is apparently a hepatotoxic or liver damaging chemical.
"Spores were collected from aethalia of the acellular slime mold Fuligo septica. The following components were identified in the spore cases at the relative amounts (percentage dry weight) indicated: protein (12.0%), lipid (16.7%), total carbohydrate (62.3%):(glucose (0.12%), galactose (0.56%), galactosamine (61.6%)), melanin (7.1%), phosphorus (0.4%), silicon (0.36), calcium (0.66%), sulfur (0.13%), manganese (0.08%), tin (0.02%).
There was a significant fraction of nonprotein amino acids made up largely of phenylalanine. The spore cases were enriched for specific proteins, some of which were glycosylated." --PeterGFin 13:06, August 4, 2010 (UTC)
