Dictyostelium
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Within Vinony's link graph, Dictyostelium is referenced by 41 other articles, and connects out to Dictyosteliida, Animalia and fungi.
It sits within the topics Eumycetozoa genera, Mycetozoa and Taxa named by Julius Oscar Brefeld.
Its subject is documented across 10 Wikipedia language editions.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomProtozoa
- PhylumMycetozoa
- ClassDictyosteliomycetes
- FamilyDictyostelia incertae sedis
Dictyostelium ist eine Gattung von Schleimpilzen und lebt unter günstigen Umständen als Einzeller im Boden. Bei Nahrungsmangel schließen sich die einzelligen Amöben zu einem vielzelligen Verband (soziale Amöbe) zusammen und bilden an einem langen Stiel einen Fruchtkörper, das sogenannte Sorokarp, aus, aus dem Sporen entlassen werden. Ein Vertreter dieser Gattung, Dictyostelium discoideum, ist ein bevorzugter Modellorganismus in der Zell- und Entwicklungsbiologie, sein Genom wurde 2005 von einem internationalen Forscherteam entschlüsselt.
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 8
- Family
- Dictyosteliaceae
- Collections
- BPI, UPS
- Recorded in
- United States, Liberia, Sweden
Research
9,660 papers- The Dictyostelium model for mitochondrial biology and disease.The International journal of developmental biology · 2019
- Cell biology of Dictyostelium.BMC molecular and cell biology · 2025
- [Dictyostelium].Tanpakushitsu kakusan koso. Protein, nucleic acid, enzyme · 1997
- Dictyostelium's pisatin response.Journal of biosciences · 2022
- Dictyostelium.Current biology : CB · 2010
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Encyclopedic overview
5 sectionsContents
- Discovery
- Traits
- Social characteristics
- Species
- References
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Dictyostelium is a genus of single- and multi-celled eukaryotic, phagotrophic bacterivores. Though they are Protista and in no way fungal, they traditionally are known as "slime molds". They are present in most terrestrial ecosystems as a normal and often abundant component of the soil microflora, and play an important role in the maintenance of balanced bacterial populations in soils.
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