| Echinostelium | |
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| Echinostelium minutum | |
Scientific classification
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Phylum: | Amoebozoa |
| Class: | Myxogastria |
| Order: | Echinosteliales |
| Family: | Echinosteliaceae |
| Genus: |
Echinostelium De Bary, 1855 |
| Type species | |
| Echinostelium minutum De Bary, 1855
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Echinostelium is a genus of slime mould, and the only genus in the monotypic family Echinosteliaceae, [1] or Echinosteliidae. [2] It was discovered by Heinrich Anton de Bary in 1855, apparently near Frankfurt am Main. [3] Some species of Echinostelium have a sexual life cycle; others have been shown to be asexual. [4] The plasmodium can divide vegetatively, in a process called plasmotomy, to distinguish it from true cell division. [5]
Species
The genus Echinostelium comprises at least five species: [6]
- Echinostelium apitectum K. D. Whitney, 1980
- Echinostelium colliculosum K. D. Whitney & H. W. Keller, 1980
- Echinostelium corynophorum K. D. Whitney, 1980
- Echinostelium fragile Nannenga-Bremekamp, 1961
- Echinostelium minutum De Bary in Rostafinsky, 1874
References
- ^ Constantine J. Alexopoulos & T. E. Brooks (1971). "Taxonomic studies in the Myxomycetes. III. Clastodermataceae: a new family of the Echinosteliales". Mycologia. 63 (4): 925–928. doi: 10.2307/3758063. JSTOR 3758063.
- ^ Lynn Margulis; Michael J. Chapman (2009). "Pr-23 Myxomycota". Kingdoms and Domains: an illustrated guide to the phyla of life on earth (4th ed.). Elsevier. pp. 190–191. ISBN 978-0-7167-3027-9.
- ^ Constantine J. Alexopoulos (1960). "Morphology and laboratory cultivation of Echinostelium minutum". American Journal of Botany. 47 (1): 37–43. doi: 10.2307/2439491. JSTOR 2439491.
- ^ Clark, J.; Haskins, E.F. (2010). "Reproductive systems in the myxomycetes: a review" (PDF). Mycosphere. 1 (4): 337–353.
- ^ Helmut W. Sauer (1982). "Lives of a true slime mould". Developmental biology of Physarum. Volume 11 of Developmental and cell biology series. Cambridge University Press. pp. 7–35. ISBN 978-0-521-22703-2.
- ^ T. W. May (2003). "Echinosteliales". Basidiomycota p.p. & Myxomycota p.p. Volume 2 of Catalogue and bibliography of Australian macrofungi. CSIRO Publishing. pp. 2–3. ISBN 978-0-643-06907-7.
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