Showing papers by "Lindsay S. Olive published in 1981"
TL;DR: Aggregating cells of the cellular slime mold Fonticula alba form a volcano-shaped fruiting structure which at maturity bears its spores apically in a globose mucous mass.
Abstract: Aggregating cells of the cellular slime mold Fonticula alba form a volcano-shaped fruiting structure which at maturity bears its spores apically in a globose mucous mass. Numerous dictyosomes forming in the sorogenic cells are involved in the accumulation and deposition of stalk material.
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TL;DR: P. expulsum sp.nov.
Abstract: Protostelium expulsum sp.nov., a protostelid with a unique mode of spore dispersal, was isolated from dead attached plant parts collected in the Micronesian islands of Truk, Yap, and Guam. The single-spored fruiting body has a bipartite stalk with an inflated basal portion and a narrow upper section. Sporocarp development requires about 50 min. Shortly after maturation, increase in pressure within the stalk results in the expulsion of a mass of mucous material from the stalk base and the sudden disappearance of the sporocarp from the substrate. For a number of reasons the new species is considered most closely related to P. irregulare .
9 citations