Educational Materials for Eumycetozoans

About Eumycetozoans

General Information and Identification of Slime Molds

Culturing Eumycetozoans

Guides to Culturing Slime molds

An Introduction to Myxomycetes quickly introduces the basics about myxomycete morphology and diversity. It is also available in a Spanish or French version.

An Introduction to the Morphology and Taxonomy of Myxomycetes > an overview of their diversity.

A Beginner's Guide to Isolating and Culturing Eumycetozoans is an introduction to methods for culturing all types of slime molds.
Images of Myxomycetes
From the classic monograph The Myxomycetes (G.W. Martin and C.J. Alexopoulos, 1969)
Useful Methods for Bringing Myxomycetes into Agar Culture contains information in techniques specific to the culture of myxomyctes from spore to spore.

The Master Glossary contains definitions of terms concerning myxomycetes.

The Beginners Guide to Identifying the Common Protostelids is a great intoduction to the study and of protostelids. For a previous version click here.

Links

Click HERE to find links to other sites about slime molds.

The Guide to the Common Dictyostelid Slime Molds of Great Smoky Mountains National Park is a useful guide to the common dictyostelids of eastern North America.

Methods for Collecting Eumycetozoan Substrates in the Field introduces the techniques for isolation slime molds from the environment around us. It is also available in a Spanish version.

Thanks to Nisao Ogata (Spanish) and Alain Michaud (French) for providing translations.

Species Lists

Click on a type of slime mold to see a list of species.


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