Formation of Amoeboid Cells from the Plasmodium of a Myxomycete
- 1 July 1967
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Mycologia
- Vol. 59 (4) , 725-+
- https://doi.org/10.2307/3757103
Abstract
Uninucleate cells which were indistinguishable from normal uninucleate myxamoebae were seen to develop from large multi-nucleate plasmodla of a myxomycete. Sequential photographs are presented as evidence of this phenomenon. The plasmodia were dlplold, since they had been formed by a normal sequence of plasmo-gamy, karyogamy, and zygote coalescence. It is not believed that this formation of amoeboid cells from plasmodia is a normal part of the life cycle, but that it represents an abnormal imbalance of either nuclei of different ploidy or of the physiology of the plasmodium induced by adverse environmental conditions.This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:
- Chromosome Numbers in Pure and Gross Cultures of MyxomycetesAmerican Journal of Botany, 1966
- Plasmodial Mitoses and Polyploidy in the Myxomycete Physarum polycephalumMycologia, 1966