Dictyostelium amoeba (IMAGE)

Johns Hopkins Medicine

Dictyostelium amoeba

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A Dictyostelium amoeba, with red color indicating a reduction of negative electrical charge along the inner membrane where protrusions form to move the organism.

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Tatsat Banerjee and Peter N Devreotes, Johns Hopkins Medicine

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