The essential cause of malignant edema is a long, slender, motile, spore-bearing bacillus, resembling the bacillus of blackleg, and which can develop only in the absence of the atmosphere.
"Special Report on Diseases of Cattle"
U.S. Department of Agriculture J.R. Mohler
The swarm-cells multiply by bipartition, which may be repeated through several generations; they then unite together to form the large motile protoplasmic bodies named plasmodia.
"The Myxomycetes of the Miami Valley, Ohio"
A. P. Morgan
2. Direct Proof of the Muscle Tension Theory of Heliotropism in motile Animals.
"Manhood of Humanity."
Alfred Korzybski