Echinostelium

Echinostelium
	Echinostelium minutum
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Phylum:	Amoebozoa
Class:	Myxogastria
Order:	Echinosteliales
Family:	Echinosteliaceae
Genus:	Echinostelium; De Bary, 1855
Type species
	Echinostelium minutum; De Bary, 1855

Echinostelium is a genus of slime mould, and the only genus in the monotypic family Echinosteliaceae,^[1] or Echinosteliidae.^[2] It was discovered by Heinrich Anton de Bary in 1855, apparently near Frankfurt am Main.^[3] Some species of Echinostelium have a sexual life cycle; others have been shown to be asexual.^[4] The plasmodium can divide vegetatively, in a process called plasmotomy, to distinguish it from true cell division.^[5]

Species

The genus Echinostelium comprises at least five species:^[6]

Echinostelium apitectum K. D. Whitney, 1980
Echinostelium colliculosum K. D. Whitney & H. W. Keller, 1980
Echinostelium corynophorum K. D. Whitney, 1980
Echinostelium fragile Nannenga-Bremekamp, 1961
Echinostelium minutum De Bary in Rostafinsky, 1874

References

^ Constantine J. Alexopoulos & T. E. Brooks (1971). "Taxonomic studies in the Myxomycetes. III. Clastodermataceae: a new family of the Echinosteliales". Mycologia. 63 (4): 925–928. doi:10.2307/3758063. JSTOR 3758063.
^ Lynn Margulis; Michael J. Chapman (2009). "Pr-23 Myxomycota". Kingdoms and Domains: an illustrated guide to the phyla of life on earth (4th ed.). Elsevier. pp. 190–191. ISBN 978-0-7167-3027-9.
^ Constantine J. Alexopoulos (1960). "Morphology and laboratory cultivation of Echinostelium minutum". American Journal of Botany. 47 (1): 37–43. doi:10.2307/2439491. JSTOR 2439491.
^ Clark, J.; Haskins, E.F. (2010). "Reproductive systems in the myxomycetes: a review" (PDF). Mycosphere. 1 (4): 337–353.
^ Helmut W. Sauer (1982). "Lives of a true slime mould". Developmental biology of Physarum. Volume 11 of Developmental and cell biology series. Cambridge University Press. pp. 7–35. ISBN 978-0-521-22703-2.
^ T. W. May (2003). "Echinosteliales". Basidiomycota p.p. & Myxomycota p.p. Volume 2 of Catalogue and bibliography of Australian macrofungi. CSIRO Publishing. pp. 2–3. ISBN 978-0-643-06907-7.

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[1] Constantine J. Alexopoulos & T. E. Brooks (1971). "Taxonomic studies in the Myxomycetes. III. Clastodermataceae: a new family of the Echinosteliales". Mycologia. 63 (4): 925–928. doi:10.2307/3758063. JSTOR 3758063.

[2] Lynn Margulis; Michael J. Chapman (2009). "Pr-23 Myxomycota". Kingdoms and Domains: an illustrated guide to the phyla of life on earth (4th ed.). Elsevier. pp. 190–191. ISBN 978-0-7167-3027-9.

[3] Constantine J. Alexopoulos (1960). "Morphology and laboratory cultivation of Echinostelium minutum". American Journal of Botany. 47 (1): 37–43. doi:10.2307/2439491. JSTOR 2439491.

[4] Clark, J.; Haskins, E.F. (2010). "Reproductive systems in the myxomycetes: a review" (PDF). Mycosphere. 1 (4): 337–353.

[5] Helmut W. Sauer (1982). "Lives of a true slime mould". Developmental biology of Physarum. Volume 11 of Developmental and cell biology series. Cambridge University Press. pp. 7–35. ISBN 978-0-521-22703-2.

[6] T. W. May (2003). "Echinosteliales". Basidiomycota p.p. & Myxomycota p.p. Volume 2 of Catalogue and bibliography of Australian macrofungi. CSIRO Publishing. pp. 2–3. ISBN 978-0-643-06907-7.

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