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Subsurface lithoautotrophic microbial ecosystems, or "SLIMEs" (also abbreviated "SLMEs" or "SLiMEs"), are a type of endolithic ecosystems.They are defined by Edward O. Wilson as "unique assemblages of bacteria and fungi that occupy pores in the interlocking mineral grains of igneous rock beneath Earth's surface."
Myxine glutinosa can secrete 2 types of slimes, one of them is the epidermal mucus and the second one is the extruded slime. Epidermal mucus helps the prevention of pathogen and is produced all the time while the extruded slime is only observed during feeding, provocation or stress. [14]
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 ...
A biofilm is a syntrophic community of microorganisms in which cells stick to each other and often also to a surface. [2] [3] These adherent cells become embedded within a slimy extracellular matrix that is composed of extracellular polymeric substances (EPSs).
Fuligo septica is a species of slime mold in the class Myxomycetes. It is commonly known as scrambled egg slime or flowers of tan [ 2 ] because of its peculiar yellowish appearance. It is also known as dog vomit slime mold and is relatively common with a worldwide distribution, often being found on bark mulch in urban areas after heavy rain or ...
Hagfish can exude copious quantities of a milky and fibrous slime or mucus, from specialized slime glands. [5] When released in seawater, the slime expands to 10,000 times its original size in 0.4 seconds. [12] This slime that hagfish excrete has very thin fibers that make it more durable and retentive than the slime excreted by other animals. [13]
Life cycle. Dictyostelium discoideum is a species of soil-dwelling amoeba belonging to the phylum Amoebozoa, infraphylum Mycetozoa.Commonly referred to as slime mold, D. discoideum is a eukaryote that transitions from a collection of unicellular amoebae into a multicellular slug and then into a fruiting body within its lifetime.
The slime mold algorithm is a meta-heuristic algorithm, based on the behavior of aggregated slime molds as they stream in search of food. It is described as a simple, efficient, and flexible way of solving optimization problems , such as finding the shortest path between nodes in a network.