Lime Crystals
by Meckes/ottawa
Title
Lime Crystals
Artist
Meckes/ottawa
Medium
Photograph - Photograph
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Colored scanning electron micrograph of lime crystals on a slime mold (Didymium sp.) fruiting body. When the fruiting bodies break open, these lime crystals absorb water from the air and expand, helping to disperse the spores. Until recently the taxonomic status of slime molds has been uncertain. They had been considered to be fungi by some and protozoa by others. There are three main groups of slime molds. One group is the Plasmodial slime molds which are large single cells with thousands of nuclei. These cells are formed when individual flagellated cells swarm and fuse together. Another group is the cellular slime molds. These slime molds begin their lives as individual amoeboid protists which later congregate into a large swarm. The third group is the Labyrinthulomycota which seem to be more closely related to the Chromista than the other slime molds. Magnification is x900 at 6x6cm.
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May 19th, 2021
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