myxamoebae
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Dictyostelium discoideum — Fruiting bodies of D. discoideum Scientific classification Domain: Eukar … Wikipedia
Dictyostelium — Scientific classification Domain: Eukarya Kingdom: Amoebozoa Phylum: Mycetozoa … Wikipedia
Alternation of generations — (also known as alternation of phases or metagenesis) is a term primarily used in describing the life cycle of plants (taken here to mean the Archaeplastida). A multicellular sporophyte, which is diploid with 2N paired chromosomes (i.e. N pairs),… … Wikipedia
Acrasin — (pronEng|əˈkreɪzɛn) a chemotactic chemical secreted by cellular Slime molds to signal that many Myxamoebae should come together to form an aggregate Pseudoplasmodium.Each species of slime mold has its own specific chemical messenger, collectively … Wikipedia
myxamoeba — (mik sah me bah; pl., myxamoebae) A free living amoeboid cell that can aggregate with other myxamoeba to form a plasmodium or pseudoplasmodium. Found in cellular slime molds and the myxomycetes … Dictionary of microbiology
pseudoplasmodium — (soo do plaz mo de um; pl., pseudoplasmodia) A sausage shaped amoeboid structure consisting of many myxamoebae and behaving as a unit; the result of myxamoebal aggregation in the cellular slime molds; also called a slug … Dictionary of microbiology
Physarum — A member of the Myxomycetes or acellular slime moulds. Normally exists as a multinucleate plasmodium that may be many centimetres across, but if starved and stimulated by light will produce spores that later germinate to produce amoeboid cells,… … Dictionary of molecular biology
slime mold — 1. any of various funguslike organisms belonging to the phylum Myxomycota, of the kingdom Protista (or the plant class Myxomycetes), characterized by a noncellular, multinucleate, creeping somatic phase and a propagative phase in which fruiting… … Universalium
Myxogastria — Diderma testaceum Scientific classification Kingdom: Amoebozoa … Wikipedia
myx|a|moe|ba — myx|a|me|ba or myx|a|moe|ba «MIHK suh MEE buh», noun, plural bas, bae « bee». a slime mold at the stage when it is an amebalike free swimming swarm spore and before it fuses to form a plasmodium: »The myxamoebae…now begin to congregate about a… … Useful english dictionary
