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  2. Myxozoa - Wikipedia

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    Myxozoa (etymology: Greek: μύξα myxa "slime" or "mucus" [2] + thematic vowel o + ζῷον zoon "animal" [3]) is a subphylum of aquatic cnidarian animals – all obligate parasites. It contains the smallest animals ever known to have lived.

  3. Physarum polycephalum - Wikipedia

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    Physarum polycephalum, an acellular [1] slime mold or myxomycete popularly known as "the blob", [2] is a protist with diverse cellular forms and broad geographic distribution. The “acellular” moniker derives from the plasmodial stage of the life cycle : the plasmodium is a bright yellow macroscopic multinucleate coenocyte shaped in a ...

  4. Myxogastria - Wikipedia

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    Swedish mycologist Elias Magnus Fries described numerous slime moulds as Myxogasteres in 1829. [5] Species in the class Myxogastria are colloquially known as plasmodial or acellular slime moulds. Some consider the Myxogastria a separate kingdom , with an unsettled phylogeny because of conflicting molecular and developmental data.

  5. Slime mold - Wikipedia

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    Slime molds contribute to the decomposition of dead vegetation; some are parasitic. Most slime molds are terrestrial and free-living, typically in damp shady habitats such as in or on the surface of rotting wood. Some myxogastrians and protostelians are aquatic or semi-aquatic. The phytomyxea are parasitic, living inside their plant hosts.

  6. Plasmodium (life cycle) - Wikipedia

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    The term plasmodium, introduced by Leon Cienkowski, [2] usually refers to the feeding stage of slime molds; these are macroscopic mycetozoans. [3]The multinucleate developmental stages of some intracellular parasites, namely Microsporidia (now in Fungi) and Myxosporidia (now in Cnidaria), former cnidosporans, are also sometimes called plasmodia.

  7. Fish diseases and parasites - Wikipedia

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    Parasites can provide information about host population ecology. In fisheries biology, for example, parasite communities can be used to distinguish distinct populations of the same fish species co-inhabiting a region. [9] Additionally, parasites possess a variety of specialized traits and life-history strategies that enable them to colonize hosts.

  8. Behavior-altering parasite - Wikipedia

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    The parasite eggs are passed with the feces of the host, which then are eaten by a terrestrial snail (first intermediate host). The fluke matures into a juvenile stage in the snail, which in an attempt to protect itself excretes the parasites in "slime-balls". The "slime-balls" are then consumed by ants (second intermediate hosts).

  9. List of Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 2nd edition monsters ...

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    This is a list of Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 2nd-edition monsters, an important element of that role-playing game. [1] [2] [3] This list only includes monsters from official Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 2nd Edition supplements published by TSR, Inc. or Wizards of the Coast, not licensed or unlicensed third-party products such as video games or unlicensed Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 2nd Edition ...