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Author: Joanne Willey
Publisher: Mcgraw-hill Higher Education (us)
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Myxogastria is also known as Myxomycetes or myxogastrids. It is a class of slime molds that comprising 14 families, 5 orders, 888 species, and 62 genera. Myxogastria is colloquially referred to as acellular slime molds or plasmodial. It is mainly present in open forests and also in extreme regions. For example, underwater or under snow blankets, and deserts.

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