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Schizoplasmodiopsis vulgare L. S. Olive and Stoian
Life   Amoebozoa   Eumycetozoa   Protosteliaceae   Schizoplasmodiopsis


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Cultivated on hay infusion agar, oak bark agar, lactose-yeast 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) on association with pre-grown Florida 20 bacterium or Flavobacterium sp. Sporocarps variable in size, 17-107 µm tall. Stalk length variable, 9-70 µm long. Single spore at tip of stalk, globose, uninucleate (rarely 2-5 nuclei), 8-18 (-37) µm in diam. with scattered bumps on the surface making the spore look lumpy. Each spore germinates to release a single, thin, branched amoeba with filose subpseudopodia. Each amoeba contains several contractilve vacuoles. Pseudopodia of amoeba can fuse to produce large plasmodia but no nuclear fusion is observed. Prespore cells uninucleate, rarely containing several nuclei, and form from single amoebae or segments of plasmodia. Cyst round to irregular, uninucleate to plurinucleate, 5-66 x 7-300 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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