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

New #ISEPpapers #preprint! Two newly cultivated eukaryotrophic #flagellates represent distinct #anaerobic lineages within Rhizaria https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.09.01.610664v2

#protists #microbes #rhizaria #evolution #biology #taxonomy #phylogeny #NewSpecies