slime molds

Its branch is known as the cellular slime molds, because its spore and stalk are made out of many cells.

Humans and slime molds alike choose according to relative values, rather than trying to calculate absolute ones.

While naturalists have known of slime molds for centuries, only now are scientists really starting to understand them.

Slime molds are also present in huge numbers: There may be thousands of individual slime molds in a pinch of soil.

Even if the slime molds die to form a stalk, many of their genes are passed on to the next generation through their kin.

Dictyostelium belongs to one of the two great branches of slime molds.

The traits that slime molds share in common, like making spores, may have first evolved as they came ashore.

Had no water layer here, and if there is not enough water and soil, slime molds will enter the sleep state.

The pulsating networks that some slime molds form are giving other scientists clues to solving difficult mathematical problems.

Slime molds first came to scientific fame in the mid-20th century with the work of the Princeton biologist John Tyler Bonner.

Building networks sometimes requires tough decisions from slime molds.

Finding new species of slime molds will let scientists test these possibilities, Dr. Baldauf said.

slime molds then devour many of the bacteria, releasing their nutrients for other organisms to grow on.

Eventually, acellular slime molds also make spores.

Despite their name, slime molds are not related to bread mold or the black mold that grows in damp houses.

They are the slime molds.

Preliminary studies suggest that the common ancestor of all living slime molds is much older than that.