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Mcnamara 1987 Uiuc Phd Dissertation - Morphogenetic Movements Contributing To Cell Aggregation In Dictyostelium Discoideum Wild-Type And Streamer F Mutants, George Mcnamara
George McNamara
McNamara 1987 UIUC PhD Dissertation - Morphogenetic movements contributing to cell aggregation in Dictyostelium discoideum wild-type and streamer F mutants.
PhD Supervisor: Robert P. Futrelle.
We investigated some cell processes which may contribute to cell aggregation patterns in the social ameba Dictyostelium discoideum. Aggregation is known to be mediated by chemotaxis up periodic extracellular cAMP gradients; however, the details of cell movement during this stage of development have not been reported. We recorded cell behavior by time-lapse cinemicroscopy and collected cell motion and cell shape data by computer-aided planimetry.
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Bottom line is that I discovered that the reason streamerF …