Slime Mold Fruiting Bodies
by Meckes/ottawa
Title
Slime Mold Fruiting Bodies
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Meckes/ottawa
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Photograph - Photograph
Description
Colored scanning electron micrograph of the fruiting bodies (sporangium) of slime mold (Didymium sp.). These sporangium have broken open to release the spores within them. 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 x40 at 6x6cm.
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May 19th, 2021
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