Dictyostelium

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Translingual

Dictyostelium discoideum

Etymology

New Latin. Coined by German botanist and mycologist Julius Oscar Brefeld in 1869 from Ancient Greek δίκτυον (díktuon, “fishing net”) + Ancient Greek στήλη (stḗlē, “pillar, column”) + -ium, referring to how the cells of its sorocarps' stalks visually resemble nets.[1] See stele.

Proper noun

Dictyostelium n

  1. A taxonomic genus within the family Dictyosteliidae – protozoan bacteriophages known as slime molds, once thought to be fungi.

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References

  1. ^ Sanea Sheikh with Mats Thulin, James C. Cavender, Ricardo Escalante, Shin-ichi Kawakami, Carlos Lado, John C. Landolt, Vidyanand Nanjundiah, David C. Queller, Joan E. Strassmann, Frederick W. Spiegel, Steven L. Stephenson, Eduardo M. Vadell, and Sandra L. Baldauf (2018 February) “A New Classification of the Dictyostelids”, in Protist, volume 169, number 1, →DOI, →PMID, pages 1–28
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