Species
Myxomycota
IUCN
NCBI
EOL Text
Mycetozoa is used here is a broad sense, and includes organisms which may be amoeboid, amoebo-flagellate, or plasmodial; amoebae and amoebo-flagellate staes can encyst; under appropriate conditions of light, nutrition and humidity they can form fruiting bodies that rise above the substratum and support one of more aerial spores, the fruiting body stalks may be cellular or acellular; sporangia may have ancillary sterile elements or may be merely an assemblage of spores within a sporangial wall, or spores may be formed in uniseriate chains covered with a slime sheath, with or without dichotomous branching (Guttulinia); free-living, heterotrophic organisms are found almost anywhere organic material is located; on rotting logs, soil, living trees and herbaceous plants, and similar habitats.
The Eumycetozoan Project - wolrdwide
The Hidden Forest: Slime Moulds - New Zealand
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The Eumycetozoan Project - wolrdwide
The Hidden Forest: Slime Moulds - New Zealand
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Slime moulds use a form of spatial "memory" to navigate, despite not having a brain, a study has found.
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Rights holder/Author | Jeff Holmes, Jeff Holmes |
Source | http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/19846365 |
Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) Stats
Specimen Records:222
Specimens with Sequences:245
Specimens with Barcodes:215
Species:156
Species With Barcodes:156
Public Records:218
Public Species:156
Public BINs:0
The dominant trophic form is the plasmodium or the slime stage, plasmodia may be found on moist logs in woods, on leaf litter, or even the moist bark of living trees and vines; plasmodia may be coloured red, orange, white, violet, or almost black, but most are yellowish; can be induced to produce dried sclerotia which may be reactivated by wetting and placing them in a moist chamber and feeding them; spores are haploid, range in size from about 5 to 20 µm, but most are about 10 µm in diameter; when water is present, they germinate, releasing protoplasts which may develop into either a amoeba or a amoebo-flagellate, both of which are haploid and behave like gametes; haploid gametes fuse in pairs to form diploid zygotes, which then divide mitotically without subsequent cell division, resulting in the formation of the multinucleated mass of cytoplasm called the plasmodium.
Fungus / parasite
Dendryphiella dematiaceous anamorph of Dendryphiella infuscans parasitises old sporangium of Myxomycetes
Other: minor host/prey
Fungus / feeder
Milnesium tardigradum feeds on fruitbody (early stage) of Myxomycetes
Remarks: captive: in captivity, culture, or experimentally induced
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slime molds preys on:
dead wood
Based on studies in:
Puerto Rico, El Verde (Rainforest)
This list may not be complete but is based on published studies.
- Waide RB, Reagan WB (eds) (1996) The food web of a tropical rainforest. University of Chicago Press, Chicago
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Rights holder/Author | Cynthia Sims Parr, Joel Sachs, SPIRE |
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Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) Stats
Specimen Records:3
Specimens with Sequences:1
Specimens with Barcodes:1
Species:1
Species With Barcodes:1
Public Records:1
Public Species:1
Public BINs:0