Acrasiomycetes (Noun)
Meaning
Cellular slime molds; in some classifications placed in kingdom Protoctista.
Classification
Nouns denoting plants.
Examples
- The first isolation of the Acrasiomycetes, which are also called slime molds, dates back to 1869.
- There are only two orders of cellular slime molds, which fall within the phylum Acrasiomycetes.
- The life cycle of Acrasiomycetes has received a lot of attention and there are several models and speculations about it.
- Acrasiomycetes organisms undergo an unusual life cycle, alternating between a mobile, amoeboid and a sessile, fruiting phase.
- These organisms, along with members of the plasmodial slime molds, are referred to as the Mycetozoa, and belong to the phylum Acrasiomycetes.