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Techniques for Recording and isolating Myxomycetes

Authors :
Arturo Estrada-Torres
Diana Wrigley de Basanta
Ministerio de Economía, Industria y Competitividad (España)
Source :
Digital.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC, instname
Publication Year :
2017
Publisher :
Academic Press, 2017.

Abstract

The myxomycetes, as the name suggests, were traditionally thought to be closely related to fungi and to be present primarily in temperate forests. As research has progressed, they have been found to form part of a supergroup, the Amoebozoa. Myxomycetes have been recorded and/or isolated from every type of plant, plant detritus, and vegetation type in every terrestrial ecosystem investigated to date. In this chapter, a review of methods used to collect myxomycetes from the field and isolate these organisms in laboratory culture is presented. The methods are based to a large extent on our own experience of studying these organisms for more than 30 years, to which we have added as much helpful additional information and as many alternative protocols as possible from the literature. Obviously, the latter is a small selection of all the available literature and thus is not exhaustive, but we hope to have covered the majority of methods used by researchers to obtain these organisms, both those traditionally used, as well as others only recently developed.

Details

Language :
English
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Digital.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC, instname
Accession number :
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