黏菌

If you want to design a railway system, you could do worse than hire a slime mold.

如果你想设计一个铁路系统，让黏菌来帮忙不是馊主意。

But she's not quite ready to jump on the slime mold express.

但她还不准备马上坐上黏菌快车。

Where the slime mold had chosen a different solution, its alternative was just as efficient.

研究将发表在明天的《科学》杂志。黏菌选择的其它解决方案也同样高效。

If researchers could construct a computer model of the slime mold's behavior, says Fricker, it might help engineers design better transportation networks.

弗里克说，如果科学家能建立黏菌行为的电脑模型，就能帮工程师设计更好的运输网络。

Because they couldn't mathematically determine a "perfect" solution, the researchers decided to task the slime mold with a problem human designers had already tackled.

由于科学家无法从数学上判断哪个方案最完美，所以他们决定让黏菌挑战一个人类设计师已经解决的难题。

To continue growing and exploring, the slime mold transforms its Byzantine pattern of thin tendrils into a simpler, more-efficient network of tubes: Those carrying a high volume of nutrients gradually expand, while those that are little used slowly contract and eventually disappear.

为了继续生长和探索，黏菌会从细细的卷须组成的复杂模式便成更简单高效的管状网络：营养丰富的部分渐渐扩张，很少使用的部分慢慢萎缩并最终消失。

All three members of the former administration, George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld, have a slime mold beetle named in their honor.

乔治·W·布什、迪克·切尼和唐纳德·拉姆斯菲尔德这三位前政府官员都获得了用自己的名字为黏菌甲虫命名的殊荣。

The single fission yeast Argonaute and all plant family members belong to the Ago clade, whereas ciliates and slime molds contain members of the Piwi clade.

单裂殖酵母和所有植物的Argonaute蛋白属于Ago蛋白，而纤毛虫和黏菌含有Piwi蛋白的成员。

Chemotaxis is involved in the whole life cycle of Dictyostelium, a simple social amoeboid organism displaying chemotactic behavior very similar to that observed in higher eukaryotic cells.

黏菌的生活史中，从生长期的吞食细菌到发育期的聚集与型变，趋化运动都参与其中，且无论在行为上或牵涉的分子都与高等真核细胞非常相似。

In this thesis research, we have employed Dictyostelium as a model organism for amoeboid chemotaxis and taken a forward genetics approach to uncovering novel players in the signaling pathways leading to chemotaxis.

本论文即利用黏菌作为模型生物，采用正向遗传学的策略找寻趋化运动讯息传递途径上新的成员。

Breath, muscle contraction of the buttocks; arch body, as far as possible to hold his head, right leg straight towards the ceiling (peg-leg knee in order to avoid muscle tension).

呼气，收缩臀部肌肉；拱起身体，尽量抬起头来，右腿伸直朝向天花板（膝微屈，以避免肌肉紧张）。

The cost of moving grain food products was unchanged from May, but year over year are up 8%.

粮食产品的运输费用与5月份相比没有变化，但却比去年同期高8％。