Polysphondylium

Polysphondylium
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukarya
Kingdom: Amoebozoa
Phylum: Mycetozoa
Class: Dictyostelia
Order: Dictyosteliida
Family: Dictyosteliidae
Genus: Polysphondylium
Bref. (1884)
Type species
Polysphondylium violaceum
Bref. (1885)

Polysphondylium is a genus of cellular slime mould, including the species Polysphondylium pallidum.[1][2] The genus was circumscribed by German mycologist Julius Oscar Brefeld in 1884.[3]

Species

References

  1. Kawabe Y, Morio T, James JL, Prescott AR, Tanaka Y, Schaap P. (2009). "Activated cAMP receptors switch encystation into sporulation". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 106 (17): 7089–94. doi:10.1073/pnas.0901617106. PMC 2678454. PMID 19369200.
  2. Heidel AJ, Glöckner G. (2008). "Mitochondrial genome evolution in the social amoebae". Molecular Biology and Evolution 25 (7): 1440–50. doi:10.1093/molbev/msn088. PMID 18413355.
  3. Brefeld O. (1884). "Myxomyceten I. Polysphondylium violaceum und Dictyostelium mucoroides". Untersuchungen aus dem Gesammtgebiete der Mykologie (in German) 6: 1–34.


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