An inexpensive moist chamber culture technique for finding microbiota on live tree bark [PDF]
Applications in Plant SciencesPremise Traditional moist chamber cultures (MCs) prepared in aseptic laboratory environments using sterile Petri dishes are commonly used to quantify the microbiota of rough‐bark tree species and woody vines.
Ashley P. Bordelon +2 more
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Advancements in the taxonomic study of myxomycetes (Myxogastrea) in China [PDF]
Mycology, 2023 Species in the class Myxomycetes (or Myxogastrea) are essential components of biodiversity and play important ecological roles in terrestrial ecosystems, especially in forests.
Gu Rao, Shuanglin Chen
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Spatiotemporal patterns of soil myxomycetes in subtropical managed forests and their potential interactions with bacteria [PDF]
Applied and Environmental MicrobiologySoil myxomycetes are crucial soil protists with important ecological functions. Yet, our understanding of their diversity patterns in managed forests and the interactions with their food is far behind other taxa.
Wen-Long Song +6 more
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Metagenomic Insight into the Associated Microbiome in Plasmodia of Myxomycetes [PDF]
MicroorganismsDuring the trophic period of myxomycetes, the plasmodia of myxomycetes can perform crawling feeding and phagocytosis of bacteria, fungi, and organic matter. Culture-based studies have suggested that plasmodia are associated with one or several species of
Xueyan Peng +8 more
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Past and Ongoing Field-Based Studies of Myxomycetes [PDF]
Microorganisms, 2023 Evidence from molecular studies indicates that myxomycetes (also called myxogastrids or plasmodial slime molds) have a long evolutionary history, and the oldest known fossil is from the mid-Cretaceous. However, they were not “discovered” until 1654, when
Steven L. Stephenson
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Diversity of bacterial communities in the plasmodia of myxomycetes [PDF]
BMC Microbiology, 2022 Background Myxomycetes are a group of eukaryotes belonging to Amoebozoa, which are characterized by a distinctive life cycle, including the plasmodium stage and fruit body stage. Plasmodia are all found to be associated with bacteria.
Shu Li +7 more
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Fungi and Myxomycetes of the Tehuacán-Cuicatlán Biosphere Reserve, Mexico: A Comprehensive Review and Future Perspectives. [PDF]
IUBMB LifeABSTRACT The Tehuacán‐Cuicatlán Biosphere Reserve in Mexico, spanning approximately 10,000 km2, is crucial for conserving arid and semi‐arid ecosystems, as it hosts unique endemic species and complex ecological interactions. Despite their environmental significance, fungi and myxomycetes in this region have been understudied, particularly those adapted
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Distribution and diversity of myxomycetes in Tiantangzhai National Forest Park, China [PDF]
PeerJ, 2021 Although myxomycetes are ubiquitous in terrestrial ecosystems, studies on their distribution and diversity in subtropical humid forests are still lacking.
Min Li +6 more
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A Novel Protistan Trait Database Reveals Functional Redundancy and Complementarity in Terrestrial Protists (Amoebozoa and Rhizaria). [PDF]
Mol Ecol ResourABSTRACT The inclusion of functional traits of protists in environmental sequencing surveys, in addition to the traditional taxonomic framework, is essential for a better understanding of their roles and impacts on ecosystem processes. We provide a database of functional traits for a widespread and important clade of protists—the Amoebozoa—based on ...
Freudenthal J +3 more
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Slime molds (Myxomycetes) causing a “disease” in crop plants and cultivated mushrooms [PDF]
Frontiers in Plant ScienceMyxomycetes (plasmodial slime molds) are eukaryotic protist predators that are associated with wood, leaf litter, and soil in forests, where they feed on bacteria, protozoans, and (to a more limited extent) fungi.
Zhaojuan Zhang +4 more
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