𝗪𝗜𝗞𝗜𝗣𝗘𝗗𝗜𝗔 𝗣𝗜𝗖𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗘 𝗢𝗙 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗗𝗔𝗬

✧ Slime mold ✧

Slime mold is an informal name given to a polyphyletic assemblage of unrelated eukaryotic organisms in the clades Stramenopiles, Rhizaria, Discoba, Amoebozoa and Holomycota. Most are near-microscopic; those in Myxogastria form larger plasmodial slime molds that are visible to the naked eye. Most slime molds are terrestrial and free...

#Rhizaria #Discoba #Stramenopiles #Holomycota #AtacamaDesert #Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slime_mold

The FEZ research group at the Natural History Museum Oslo has started its 2022 Advent calendar. This year we will focus on papers published in 2022 that group members found particularly interesting and/or impressive.

https://blog.annelida.de/2022/12/01/door-1-the-origin-of-animals-and-fungi/

The first door opens to a publication by Ocaña-Pallarès et al. (2022) Divergent genomic trajectories predate the origin of animals and fungi. Nature 609: 747-753. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-022-05110-4

#AdventCalendar #Holozoa #Holomycota #Opisthokonta #phylogenomics