Fonticula

Fonticula
Fonicula multicellular fruiting body
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
(unranked): Opisthokonta
(unranked): Holomycota
Class: Cristidiscoidea
Order: Fonticulida
Family: Fonticulaceae
Genus: Fonticula
Worley, Raper & M. Hohl
Species: F. alba
Binomial name
Fonticula alba
Worley, Raper & M. Hohl

Fonticula is a genus of cellular slime mold which forms a fruiting body in a volcano shape.[1] As long ago as 1979 it has been known to not have a close relationship with either the Dictyosteliida or the Acrasidae, the two well-established groups of cellular slime molds.[2] A 2009 paper finds it to be related to Nuclearia, which in turn is related to fungi.[3]

Fonticula, Nuclearia, and Fungi have been united into the Nucletmycea, which is sister to the Holozoa.

References

  1. Mary C. Deasey and Lindsay S. Olive (31 July 1981), "Role of Golgi Apparatus in Sorogenesis by the Cellular Slime Mold Fonticula alba", Science, 213 (4507): 561–563, PMID 17794844, doi:10.1126/science.213.4507.561
  2. Ann C. Worley, Kenneth B. Raper and Marianne Hohl (Jul–Aug 1979), "Fonticula alba: A New Cellular Slime Mold (Acrasiomycetes)", Mycologia, 71 (4): 746–760, JSTOR 3759186, doi:10.2307/3759186
  3. Matthew W. Brown, Frederick W. Spiegel and Jeffrey D. Silberman (2009), "Phylogeny of the "Forgotten" Cellular Slime Mold, Fonticula alba, Reveals a Key Evolutionary Branch within Opisthokonta", Molecular Biology and Evolution, 26 (12): 2699–2709, PMID 19692665, doi:10.1093/molbev/msp185


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