Slime mould

From Palaeos

Slime moulds are a polyphyletic assemblage of heterotrophic eukaryotes with life cycles in which a mycelium or colony of independent amoeboid cells comes together to form a fungus-like fruiting body. Different authors have included slime moulds among the fungi or protozoa, but slime moulds differ from true fungi in lacking a cell wall. The majority of slime moulds form a derived clade (the Mycetozoa) of Amoebozoa, but some small groups previously regarded as slime moulds belong elsewhere - the acrasids belong in the Heterolobosea, while Labyrinthulomycota are heterokonts.

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