同其它种类的黏菌混在一起时，他们更有可能变成孢子而不是死去的柄细胞。
If they are mixed with other strains, they are more likely to end up as spores than as dead stalk cells.
最终，非细胞黏菌也会产生孢子。
其他的研究显示黏菌家族相当古老。
Other studies have shown that the slime mold lineage is immensely old.
建立网络有时需要黏菌做出艰难的决定。
Building networks sometimes requires tough decisions from slime molds.
四小时后，黏菌已经在尽情享用食物了。
After four hours, the slime mold was feasting on both blocks of food.
他们就是黏菌（slime molds）。
盘基网柄菌属于黏菌两个大型分支当中的一个。
Dictyostelium belongs to one of the two great branches of slime molds.
果然，黏菌即时地随温度改变而减慢和加快移动速度。
Sure enough, the mould slowed down and sped up in time with the temperature changes.
黏菌的共同特征，像产生孢子，可能是在到达陆地后最先进化的。
The traits that slime molds share in common, like making spores, may have first evolved as they came ashore.
黏菌长出的触角网络几乎和伊比利亚半岛上真实的公路系统一模一样。
The slime mold grew a network of tentacles that was nearly identical to the actual highway system on the Iberian Peninsula.
即使黏菌为形成柄而死亡，它们的很多基因也会通过亲属传给下一代。
Even if the slime molds die to form a stalk, many of their genes are passed on to the next generation through their kin.
人类和黏菌一样，会依据相对价值进行选择，而不是试图计算绝对价值。
Humans and slime molds alike choose according to relative values, rather than trying to calculate absolute ones.
黏菌也以庞大的数量出现：一小块土壤里可能会有成千上万的黏菌个体。
Slime molds are also present in huge Numbers: There may be thousands of individual slime molds in a pinch of soil.
自然学家发现黏菌的存在已有数百年了，但直到今天才真正开始了解它们。
While naturalists have known of slime molds for centuries, only now are scientists really starting to understand them.
新黏菌品种的发现将给科学家提供机会验证这些可能性，巴尔道夫博士说。
Finding new species of slime molds will let scientists test these possibilities, Dr. Baldauf said.
一些种类的黏菌千上万个个体聚集起来，形成可以爬行的多细胞体。
Some species gather by the thousands to form multicellular bodies that can crawl.
“如果除去那些黏菌，整个地球的生态系统将会完全变样，”斯蒂芬森博士说。
If you removed those slime molds, the whole earth's ecosystems would be very different, "Dr." Stephenson said.
奎勒和斯特拉斯曼的研究揭示出黏菌世界没有被这群骗子摧毁的原因。
Research by Dr. Queller and Dr. Strassmann has revealed some reasons the slime-mold world has not been overwhelmed by these cheats.
黏菌复合体的生存能力非常强，它们害怕阳光，但是需要土壤和水分。
Slime viability of complex is very strong, they are afraid of the sun, but need soil and water.
生物学家在南极洲、贫瘠的沙漠、丛林的树冠、甚至家居植物的叶片上发现了黏菌。
Biologists have found slime molds in Antarctica, in barren deserts, high in the canopies of jungles and even on the leaves of household plants.
黏菌随后会吞食掉许多细菌，释放出他们的营养物质供其他有机体生长。
Slime molds then devour many of the bacteria, releasing their nutrients for other organisms to grow on.
所有已知的黏菌都生活在陆地，表明他们是地球早期的开拓者，比动植物早数亿年。
Since all known slime molds live on land, that suggests that they were early pioneers, arriving hundreds of millions of years before animals or plants.
在这个实验中，当黏菌生长时，麦片代表的城市被一个接一个地连接起来。
In the experiment, cities were represented by porridge oats that were linked to one another as the slime mould grew.
庞大的非细胞黏菌则采取不同的策略，他们大面积地铺展开来，在整个表面产生孢子。
The giant acellular slime molds chose a different strategy, spreading their bodies across huge areas, and making spores across their entire surface.
最终，非细胞黏菌也会产生孢子。他们会形成数万条柄，覆盖在顶端的孢子将随风飘散。
Eventually, acellular slime molds also make spores. They produce tens of thousands of stalks, and the spores that cap them blow away in the wind.
“如果一些国家刚开始建造公路，我提议他们采纳黏菌的路线，”亚达马特兹基博士说。
If some countries started to build highways from scratch, I would recommend to them to follow the slime mold routes, "Dr." Adamatzky said.
他是其中一个认同Chua的成果的，他辨认出黏菌像记忆性电路一样工作。
He was one of the few who had followed Chua's work, and recognised that the slime mould was behaving like a memristive circuit.
本来这里的土层没有水源，如果没有足够的水源和土壤，黏菌会进入休眠状态。
Had no water layer here, and if there is not enough water and soil, slime molds will enter the sleep state.
DiVentra推测黏菌溶胶与凝胶成分的黏度有利于记忆电阻的机械模拟。
Di Ventra speculates that the viscosities of the sol and gel components of the slime mould make for a mechanical analogue of memristance.
尽管有着霉菌一样的名字，黏菌可跟面包的霉点或者长在阴暗潮湿的房子里的黑色霉菌没关系。
Despite their name, slime molds are not related to bread mold or the black mold that grows in damp houses.
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