Directory of Myxomycota Resources

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Members of the kingdom Myxomycota are the plasmodial or true slime moulds. The individuals group together to form patches of wet slime on fallen logs, with many nuclei in a continuous sheet of cytoplasm. The patches do not move bodily but may grow in one direction. When conditions become drier, they may form a mound from which stalked sporangia grow, and from which single-celled offspring emerge

Subcategories

• Ceratiomyxaceae
• Physaraceae
• Plasmodiophoraceae
• Reticulariaceae
• Stemonitaceae
• Trichiaceae

Resources in This Category

• Introduction to the 'Slime Molds'

  http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/protista/slimemolds.html
  Illustrated discussion of the biology and classification of these organisms, which are no longer considered to be fungi and which include three main groups that do not form a clade.

• Mushroom Photo Gallery: Myxomycetes

  http://americanmushrooms.com/myxos.htm
  About twenty photographs of various slime molds found in the United States.

• Myxomycota

  http://www.uoguelph.ca/~gbarron/myxoinde.htm
  List of about 80 slime moulds, with photographs of each.

• Philippine Myxomycetes and other Slime Molds

  http://sites.google.com/site/philippinemyxomycetes/
  Dedicated to the species of Myxomycetes and other Eumycetozoans found in the Philippines, with illustrations of many species. The Eumycetozoan Research Project is managed by myxomycetologist Isidro T. Savillo.

• Phylum Myxostelida

  http://www.mycolog.com/chapter2a.htm
  Pictorial outline of the slime molds.

• Slime Molds

  http://bioweb.uwlax.edu/bio203/2010/renner_brad/
  Student project by Brad Renner including classification, habitat, adaptation, nutrition, reproduction and interactions with other species.

• Slime Mould

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slime_mould
  Information on slime moulds which were originally considered to be fungi by mycologists and amoebae by zoologists, respectively classified as Myxomycota (slime fungi) or Mycetozoa (fungus animals).

• Slime Moulds

  http://www.hiddenforest.co.nz/slime/what.htm
  Illustrated introduction to slime mold biology.

 

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