- acellular slime moulds
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Protozoa of the Order Eumycetozoida (also termed true slime moulds). Have a multinucleate plasmodial phase in the life cycle.
Dictionary of molecular biology. 2004.
acellular slime moulds
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slime moulds — Two distinct groups of fungi, the cellular slime moulds or Acrasidae that include Dictyostelium, and the acellular slime moulds or Myxomycetes that include Physarum … Dictionary of molecular biology
acellular — Not made of cells; commonest use is in reference to slime moulds such as Physarum that are multinucleate syncytia … Dictionary of molecular biology
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
plasmodium — Multinucleate mass of protoplasm bounded only by a plasma membrane; the main vegetative form of acellular slime moulds (eg. Physarum) … Dictionary of molecular biology
