Slime mold or slime mould is an informal name given to a polyphyletic assemblage of unrelated eukaryotic organisms in the Stramenopiles, Rhizaria, Discoba...
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Fuligo septica (redirect from Dog vomit slime mold)
Fuligo septica is a species of slime mold in the class Myxomycetes. It is commonly known as scrambled egg slime or flowers of tan because of its peculiar...
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most molds were classified within the Deuteromycota. Mold had been used as a common name for now non-fungal groups such as water molds or slime molds that...
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Myxogastria (redirect from Plasmodial Slime Mold)
of slime molds that contains 5 orders, 14 families, 62 genera, and 888 species. They are colloquially known as the plasmodial or acellular slime moulds...
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Brefeldia maxima (redirect from Tapioca slime mold)
non-parasitic plasmodial slime mold, and a member of the class Myxomycetes. It is commonly known as the tapioca slime mold because of its peculiar pure...
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Dictyostelid (redirect from Dictyostelid slime mold)
(Dictyostelia/Dictyostelea, ICZN, Dictyosteliomycetes, ICBN) or cellular slime molds are a group of slime molds or social amoebae. When food (normally bacteria) is readily...
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Plasmodium (life cycle) (redirect from Plasmodium (slime mold))
individual cells each with a single nucleus. Plasmodia are best known from slime molds, but are also found in parasitic Myxosporea, and some algae such as the...
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Acrasidae (redirect from Acrasid Slime Mold)
The family Acrasidae (ICZN, or Acrasiomycota, ICBN) is a family of slime molds which belongs to the excavate group Heterolobosea. The name element acrasio-...
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Leocarpus fragilis (redirect from Insect egg slime mold)
fragilis is a myxogastrid or acellular slime mold of the genus Leocarpus. The common name in English is insect-egg slime mold. L.fragilis can be found on leaf...
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Eumycetozoa (redirect from True slime mold)
(múkēs) 'fungus' and ζῷον (zôion) 'animal'), or true slime molds, is a diverse group of protists that behave as slime molds and develop fruiting bodies, either as sorocarps...
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Mycetozoa is a polyphyletic grouping of slime molds. It was originally thought to be a monophyletic clade, but in 2010 it was discovered that protostelia...
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Toshiyuki Nakagaki (section Slime molds)
Electronic Science (RIES). He is famous for leading experiments relating to slime mold, specifically its ability to solve mazes as a lifeform without a brain...
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Physarum polycephalum, an acellular slime mold or myxomycete popularly known as "the blob", is a protist with diverse cellular forms and broad geographic...
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Lycogala epidendrum (redirect from Toothpaste slime)
3,4-bis(Indol-3-Yl)pyrrole-2,5-dicarboxylic acid-derivatives from the slime-mold Lycogala epidendrum". Tetrahedron Letters. 35: 1689–1690. doi:10...
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raspberry slime mold or red raspberry slime mold, is a species of slime mold in the class Myxogastria. It is one of the most widely known and distinct slime molds...
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Stemonitis splendens (redirect from Chocolate tube slime)
Stemonitis splendens, commonly known as the chocolate tube slime, is a species of slime mold. The sporangia are dark purplish brown, smooth, dry, 10–20 mm...
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Didymium spongiosum (redirect from Dog sick slime mould)
Didymium spongiosum, also known as dog sick slime mold, is a species of true slime mold in the order Physarales. Before reclassification in 2023 it was...
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being the fruiting bodies of jelly fungi or masses of amoeba called slime molds. Nonbiological origins proposed for instances of star jelly have included...
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together; these are known as slime molds. The main clades containing amoebae are Amoebozoa (including various slime molds and testate amoebae) and Rhizaria...
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up slime in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Slime or slimy may refer to: Slime coat, the coating of mucus covering the body of all fish Slime mold, an...
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Microbial intelligence (section Slime mold computing)
slime moulds coordinate to produce complex structures or move as multicellular entities. Biologist John Bonner pointed out that although slime molds are...
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its nature as a slime mold, the genus Fonticula has also been classified separatedly, particularly with acrasids and other slime molds. With advancements...
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Sphindidae (redirect from Slime mold beetle)
in the suborder Polyphaga. They are called slime mold beetles due to their exclusive feeding on slime molds during adult and larval stages, other aspects...
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Cell wall (section Slime molds)
dictyostelids are another group formerly classified among the fungi. They are slime molds that feed as unicellular amoebae, but aggregate into a reproductive stalk...
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in length, and some multicellular amoebozoa, such as the "dog vomit" slime mold Fuligo septica, can cover an area of several square meters. Amoebozoa...
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Stemonitis axifera is a species of slime mold. It fruits in clusters on dead wood, and has distinctive tall reddish-brown sporangia, supported on slender...
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Didymium is a genus of slime molds in the family Didymiaceae. Didymium aquatilis Didymium difforme Didymium spongiosum Didymium squamulosum Didymium wildpretii...
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for his research of slime molds, their ability to solve mazes and their practical uses. Atsushi Tero has led research on slime molds, specifically Physarum...
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Sorocarp (redirect from Fruiting body (slime mold))
karpos "fruit") is the fruiting body characteristic of certain cellular slime moulds (e.g., Dictyosteliida). Each sorocarp consists of both a sorophore...
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Heterokaryon (section Slime molds)
individual level. Heterokaryosis is most common in fungi, but also occurs in slime molds. This happens because the nuclei in the 'plasmodium' form are the products...
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