Pseudopodia

... involve myosin moving on actin. No in that it is not the same mechanism. In amoebae, it is the rearranging of the actin filaments that makes the pseudopodia extend out of the cell, as I remember. In the cytosol they are arranged like a mesh, but in the pseudopodia they are arranged to extend ...

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EXTRACELLULAR-MATRIX AUGMENTS MECHANICAL-PROPERTIES OF PSEUDOPODIA IN THE CARNIVOROUS FORAMINIFERAN ASTRAMMINA-RARA - ROLE IN PREY CAPTURE J PROTOZOOL 39 (6): 724-732 NOV-DEC 1992 Abstract: The seemingly delicate, strand-like pseudopodia of Astrammina ...

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... Chaos carolinense , it will sometimes "walk" on the substratum that it may be on! :o This is accomplished by raising itself upon its pseudopodia and then extending one forward after another. These are quite large for ameobae since there size can reach anywhere from 1-5mm, makeing ...

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... of feeding. The paramecium uses its cilia to draw in or collect food in the oral groove to ingest into the gullet, where as the amoeba uses its pseudopodia to surround and engulf (phagocytosis) its food. There maybe a number of other comparisons to be made if one would think about it. :D

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... be fully understood, however there are many theories as to how it all comes about. I refered to the protoplasmic extentions of the plasmodium as pseudopodia, I do believe I was wrong in that terminology. In Jahns book they are refered to as "myxopodia," which seems to be a more correct ...

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