A rare and mysterious slime mold may contain clues about the emergence of multicellularity.
spends most of its life cycle as a single-celled organism, feeding on bacteria as part of the cycle of decay.
A team of researchers led by biologist Christopher Toret of the University of Geneva in Switzerland wanted to learn more about the organism's little-studied life cycle, so they set about culturing it in the lab. Although the slime mold can feed on different types of bacteria, a common fecal bacterium calledback in 1979, so that is what the researchers used., and introduced the slime mold at different stages of the bacteria's life cycle.
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