A colony of Dictyostelium devouring bacteria

Образовательные видео в сообществе Social amoebas (Dictyostelium discoideum) growing outward on a petri dish and aggregating. As the single-cell amoebas eat through their food source (bacteria on the petri dish) and begin starving, they start signaling to each other, aggregate and form large, multi-cellular “fruiting bodies“ supported by a stalk of dead cells that have sacrificed themselves to support the others. Cells in the fruiting body are in a dormant spore state, waiting for a passing i