Physarina | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-05-05

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myxogastria


00:01:12 1 Taxonomy and classification
00:01:22 1.1 Nomenclature
00:02:20 1.2 Range
00:03:55 1.3 Classification and phylogeny
00:05:37 2 Characteristics and life cycle
00:05:47 2.1 Monocellular, mononuclear phase
00:05:57 2.1.1 Spores
00:07:11 2.1.2 Myxamoebae and Myxoflagellates
00:08:50 2.1.3 Zygogenesis
00:09:31 2.2 Plasmodium
00:11:31 2.3 Fructification
00:13:16 2.4 Asexual forms
00:13:39 3 Distribution and ecology
00:13:49 3.1 Distribution
00:16:44 3.2 Habitats
00:17:50 3.3 Relationship to other creatures
00:19:54 4 Fossil records
00:22:17 5 History of research



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Myxogastria/Myxogastrea (myxogastrids, ICZN) or Myxomycetes  (ICBN), is a class of slime molds that contains 5 orders, 14 families, 62 genera and 888 species. They are colloquially known as the plasmodial or acellular slime moulds.
All species pass through several, very different morphologic phases, such as microscopic individual cells, slimy amorphous organisms visible with the naked eye and conspicuously shaped fruit bodies. Although they are monocellular, they can reach immense widths and weights: in extreme cases they can be up to 1 metre (3 ft 3 in) across and weigh up to 20 kilograms (44 lb).The class Myxogastria is distributed worldwide, but it is more common in temperate regions where it has a higher biodiversity than in polar regions, the subtropics or tropics. They are mainly found in open forests, but also in extreme regions such as deserts, under snow blankets or underwater.  They also occur on the bark of trees, sometimes high in the canopy.  These are known as corticolous myxomycetes.  Most species are very small.