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AN investigation of the life-cycle of the acellular slime-mould (myxomycete) Physarum polycephalum has revealed that a mating-type system exists in this organism, and analysis of this system has been carried out. The existence of mating-types in myxomycetes has previously been suggested by Skupienski1 as a result of his work on Didymium nigripes, and D. difforme, but the situation was not fully investigated.
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Skupienski, M. F. X., C.R. Acad. Sci., Paris, 167, 31 (1918); 182, 150 (1926).
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DEE, J. A Mating-type System in an Acellular Slime-mould. Nature 185, 780–781 (1960). https://doi.org/10.1038/185780a0
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