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Schizoplasmodiopsis amoeboidea L. S. Olive and K. D Whitney
Life   Amoebozoa   Eumycetozoa   Protosteliaceae   Schizoplasmodiopsis


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Cultivated on Hay infusion agar, oak bark agar, lactose-yeast extract agar, or wMY agar (0.02 g malt extract, 0.02 g yeast extract, 0.75 g K2HPO4, and 15 g agar/L distilled water) in association with Xanthamonas sp., Malaya bacterium or Flavobacterium sp. Sporocarp 18-30 µm tall. Stalk straight, 6-15µm long. Spore globose, single, borne on tip of stalk, uninucleate, non-deciduous, 12-22 µm in diam. Spore surface minutely punctate. Spore geminates to produce a uninucleate (rarely plurinucleate), thin amoeba. Single amoebae round up to form a prespore cell or cyst. Cysts typically uninucleate and round, 9-37 µm in diam., or irregular, 7-49 x 12-72 µm.

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Acknowledgements
The Eumycetozoan Project -- working to understand the ecology, sytematics and evolution of myxomycetes, dictostelids and protostelids -- the true slime molds.

Sponsored by grants from the National Science Foundation.


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