Fungi-like organisms {slime mold}| {mycetozoa} can live in dead leaves or wood. Slime molds have asexual reproduction by fission or sporulation. Cellular slime molds include Dictyostelida (Dictyostelium) and Aerasida. At cycle beginning, cellular slime molds are single-cell flagellates. Then they become amoeboid-like cells. Then they come together to form plasmodia. Then plasmodia make fruiting bodies, which make spores. Spores leave to become flagellate cells. cAMP release promotes cellular aggregation, multicellular-colony formation, and spore production.
Plasmodial slime molds include Physarum. They have fused flagellated cells with many diploid nuclei. Slime nets (Labyrinthulomycota) relate to Chromista. Myxomycetes and Protostelida are slime molds.
Amoeboid-like cells come together to form multinucleated cytoplasmic masses {plasmodium}| {plasmodia}.
Plasmodia make stalks with spore producers {fruiting body}|, which make spores.
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