Physarum polycephalum

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• Walter P., X.-K. Hoffmann, B. Ebeling, M. Haas and W. Marwan. 2013. Switch-like reprogramming of gene expression after fusion of multinucleate plasmodial cells of two Physarum polycephalum sporulation mutants. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, Volume 435, Issue 1, 24 May 2013, pp. 88 - 93
• Rätzel V., B. Ebeling, X. Hoffman, J. Tesmer and W. Marwan. 2013. Physarum polycephalum mutants in the photocontrol of sporulation display altered patterns in the correlated expression of developmentally regulated genes. Development, Growth & Differentiation 55 (2), pp. 247 - 259
• Barrantes I., J. Leipzig and W. Marwan. 2012. A Next-Generation Sequencing Approach to Study the Transcriptomic Changes During the Differentiation of Physarum at the Single-Cell Level Gene Regulation and Systems Biology 2012:6 127 - 137
• Hoffmann X., J. Tesmer, M. Souquet and W. Marwan. 2012. Futile attempts to differentiate provide molecular evidence for individual differences within a population of cells during cellular reprogramming. FEMS Microbiology Letters, Online First, 15 February 2012.
• Barrantes I., G. Glöckner, S. Meyer and W. Marwan. 2010. Transcriptomic changes arising during light-induced sporulation in Physarum polycephalum. BMC Genomics, 11:115 .
• Glöckner, G., G. Golderer, G. Werner-Felmayer, S. Meyer, and W. Marwan. 2008. A first glimpse at the transcriptome of Physarum polycephalum. BMC Genomics. 9:6.
• Sujatha, A., S. Balaji, R. Devi, and W. Marwan. 2005. Isolation of Physarum polycephalum plasmodial mutants altered in sporulation by chemical mutagenesis of flagellates. Eur. J. Protistol. 41:19-27.
• Materna, S., and W. Marwan. 2005. Estimating the number of plasmids taken up by a eukaryotic cell during transfection and evidence that antisense RNA abolishes gene expression in Physarum polycephalum. FEMS Microbiol. Lett. 243:29-35.
• Marwan W., A. Sujatha, and C. Starostzik. 2005. Reconstructing the regulatory network controling commitment and sporulation in Physarum polycephalum based on hierarchical Petri net modeling and simulation. J. Theor. Biol. 236:349-365.
• Marwan W. 2003. Theory of time-resolved somatic complementation and its use for the analysis of the sporulation control network of Physarum polycephalum. Genetics 164:105-115.
• Marwan W., and C. Starostzik. 2002. The sequence of regulatory events in the sporulation control network of Physarum polycephalum analysed by time-resolved somatic complementation of mutants. Protist 153:391-400.
• Lamparter, T., and W. Marwan. 2001. Spectroscopic detection of a phytochrome-like photoreceptor in the Myxomycete Physarum polycephalum and the kinetic mechanism for the photocontrol of sporulation by Pfr. Photochem. Photobiol. 73:697-702.
• Kroneder, R., A. R. Cashmore, and W. Marwan. 1999. Phytochrome-induced expression of lig1, a homologue of the fission yeast cell cycle checkpoint gene hus1 is associated with the developmental switch in Physarum polycephalum plasmodia. Curr. Genet. 36:86-93.
• Starostzik, C., and W. Marwan. 1998. Kinetic analysis of a signal transduction pathway by time-resolved somatic complementation of mutants. J. Exp. Biol. 201:1991-1999.
• Starostzik, C., and W. Marwan. 1995. Functional mapping of the branched signal transduction pathway that controls sporulation in Physarum polycephalum. Photochem. Photobiol. 62:930-933.
• Starostzik, C., and W. Marwan. 1995. A photoreceptor with characteristics of phytochrome triggers sporulation in the true slime mould Physarum polycephalum. FEBS Lett. 370:146-148.
• Starostzik, C., and W. Marwan. 1994. Time-resolved detection of three intracellular signals controlling photomorphogenesis in Physarum polycephalum. J. Bacteriol. 176:5541-5543.