Symmetry breaking transition towards directional locomotion in Physarum microplasmodia

True slime mold Physarum polycephalum has been widely used as a model organism to study flow-driven amoeboid locomotion as well as the dynamics of its complex mechanochemical self-oscillations. The aim of this work is to quantify the mechanical aspects of symmetry breaking and its transition into directional flow-driven amoeboid locomotion in small (更多