We have elected to study this process in the slime mold Physarum polycephalum (Pp), which carries out the widest range of RNA editing events yet described. These changes to mitochondrial RNAs involve ...

Slime molds are among the most primitive of living things. Six years ago one of them, a golden yellow mold long known to botanists as Physarum polycephalum, was successfully cultured indoors by Dr.