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Cultivated on oak bark agar (at pH 6) or wMY agar (0.02 g malt extract, 0.02 g yeast extract, 0.75 g K2HPO4, and 15 g agar/L distilled water) with a mixture of Malaya bacterium and Kitani yeast. Sporocarp 28-78 µm tall. Stalk 12-58 µm tall, and broad with a conspicuous wrinkled basal disk and a swollen apophysis at the apex, 6-10.8 µm broad. Spores globose, 19.2-25.5 µm in diam. Spores geminate to produce plurinucleate plasmodia. Plasmodium reticulate, with thing filose subpseudopodia. Plasmodia enlarge by cell fusions or be nuclear division without plasmotomy. Plasmodia divide into a number of masses of prespore cells. Cysts round to ovate, elongated, or irregular in shape, 12-50 x 12-80(sometimes 150) µm.
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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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