| 词条 | Acrasin |
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Each species of slime mold has its own specific chemical messenger, which are collectively referred to as acrasins.{{ref|bonner}} These chemicals signal that lots of individual cells should move towards each other to form a single large cell or plasmodium. One of the earliest acrasins to be identified was cAMP, found in the species Dictyostelium discoideum by Brian Shaffer{{ref|shaffer}}, which exhibits a complex swirling-pulsating spiral pattern when forming a pseudoplasmodium.{{ref|naos}} The term acrasin was descriptively named after Acrasia from Edmund Spenser's Faerie Queene{{ref|smithson}}, who seduced men against their will and then transformed them into beasts. Acrasia is itself a play on the Greek akrasia that describes loss of free will. Notes{{refbegin}}
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