Subdeacon Joe Posted January 6 Share Posted January 6 Interesting stuff! https://www.mdpi.com/2076-2607/11/9/2283 zoom_out_map search menu Journals Microorganisms Volume 11 Issue 9 10.3390/microorganisms11092283 Download PDF settings Order Article Reprints Open AccessReview Past and Ongoing Field-Based Studies of Myxomycetes by Steven L. Stephenson Department of Biological Sciences, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR 72701, USA Microorganisms 2023, 11(9), 2283; https://doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms11092283 Submission received: 23 August 2023 / Revised: 6 September 2023 / Accepted: 8 September 2023 / Published: 11 September 2023 (This article belongs to the Special Issue 10th Anniversary of Microorganisms: Past, Present and Future) Downloadkeyboard_arrow_down Browse Figures Review Reports Versions Notes "Abstract 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 a brief description and a woodcut depicting what is almost certainly the common species Lycogala epidendrum was published. First thought to be fungi, myxomycetes were not universally recognized as completely distinct until well into the twentieth century. Biodiversity surveys for the group being carried out over several years are relatively recent, with what is apparently the first example being carried out in the 1930s. Beginning in the 1980s, a series of such surveys yielded large bodies of data on the occurrence and distribution of myxomycetes in terrestrial ecosystems. The most notable of these were the All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory (ATBI) project carried out in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, the Planetary Biodiversity Inventory Project (PBI) carried out in localities throughout the world, and the Myxotropic project being carried out throughout the Neotropics. The datasets available from both past and ongoing surveys now allow global and biogeographical patterns of myxomycetes to be assessed for the first time. Keywords: biodiversity; biogeography; slime molds; surveys" Figure 1 Large fruiting body (aethalium) of the myxomycete Fuligo septica (Barbara Stephenson). Figure 3 Fossil Stemonitis in amber preserved from the mid-Cretaceous (Alexander Schmidt) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forty Rod SASS 3935 Posted January 7 Share Posted January 7 Not very> Sorry, Joe. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rye Miles #13621 Posted January 7 Share Posted January 7 I got a headache just thinking about reading it 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Father Kit Cool Gun Garth Posted January 7 Share Posted January 7 Hey @Subdeacon Joe, What was that? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Texas Joker Posted January 7 Share Posted January 7 He thinks slime molds are cool and wanted to share. He's deep man it's not always about guns and cowboy stuff. You go SDJ! 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdeacon Joe Posted January 7 Author Share Posted January 7 1 hour ago, Father Kit Cool Gun Garth said: Hey @Subdeacon Joe, What was that? I just thought it interesting. Some of them can move and find food. Not spread, but MOVE! “Myxomycetes can move and hunt for prey or look for the best environment for them. They are born from spores, like mushrooms. Myxomycetes move like huge amoebas, like pulsating masses: at 1cm per hour” -Ioannis Stivatktas 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdeacon Joe Posted January 7 Author Share Posted January 7 https://appvoices.org/2019/10/11/slime-mold-intelligence/#:~:text=The pulsating slime mold can,new things about its environment. Quote The pulsating slime mold can reach speeds of up to 1.35 millimeters per second, making it the fastest microorganism recorded. A 2012 study revealed that slime mold can solve mazes and appears to learn new things about its environment. When food is placed at the end, slime mold locates the food by exploring every part of the maze. The slime mold will find the shortest path to the food and retract all paths that don’t lead to these points, leaving behind a trail of slime that chemically signals a dead end, according to The Well, the news platform of the University of Chicago’s Marine Biological Laboratory. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdeacon Joe Posted January 7 Author Share Posted January 7 1 hour ago, Texas Joker said: He thinks slime molds are cool and wanted to share. He's deep man it's not always about guns and cowboy stuff. You go SDJ! LOL! I just like envisioning people mentally trying to pronounce "Myxomycete!" 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rye Miles #13621 Posted January 7 Share Posted January 7 21 minutes ago, Subdeacon Joe said: LOL! I just like envisioning people mentally trying to pronounce "Myxomycete!" I never even tried! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cold Lake Kid, SASS # 51474 Posted January 7 Share Posted January 7 Actually, they are an early form of Liberal. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdeacon Joe Posted January 7 Author Share Posted January 7 31 minutes ago, Cold Lake Kid, SASS # 51474 said: Actually, they are an early form of Liberal. I was thinking "politician" in general. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Injun Ryder, SASS #36201L Posted January 8 Share Posted January 8 58 minutes ago, Sedalia Dave said: Just like it's spelled. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Riot Posted January 8 Share Posted January 8 14 hours ago, Subdeacon Joe said: LOL! I just like envisioning people mentally trying to pronounce "Myxomycete!" Mix-oh-my-seat. Slimy musical chairs “Hey honey , that slimy mold in the garage has moved 9 1/2” since yesterday! What the heck is that stuff? It almost looks like it’s heading towards the dog food bin… I wonder what’ll happen if it gets to the dog food?” 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdeacon Joe Posted January 8 Author Share Posted January 8 4 minutes ago, Pat Riot said: Mix-oh-my-seat. Slimy musical chairs “Hey honey , that slimy mold in the garage has moved 9 1/2” since yesterday! What the heck is that stuff? It almost looks like it’s heading towards the dog food bin… I wonder what’ll happen if it gets to the dog food?” https://phys.org/news/2022-01-virtual-slime-mold-subway-network.html https://www.science.org/content/article/ride-slime-mold-express 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
watab kid Posted January 8 Share Posted January 8 ok , i can see the interest - to some , a little , but till it starts curing cancer im really not that interested , lets hear some great advances in science and medicine , 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Riot Posted January 8 Share Posted January 8 8 hours ago, Subdeacon Joe said: https://phys.org/news/2022-01-virtual-slime-mold-subway-network.html https://www.science.org/content/article/ride-slime-mold-express That really interesting. I don’t see it being used in rail systems because they take so long to become a network, but space stations, planet habitats like a moon or Mars base. Thiugh I have encountered and worked for slimy characters in rail transit. But Physarum Polycephalum would be a step up in evolution compared to those dirtbags. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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