Acrasis rosea

Acrasis rosea
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
(unranked):	Excavata
Phylum:	Percolozoa
Class:	Heterolobosea
Order:	incertae sedis
Family:	Acrasidae
Genus:	Acrasis
Binomial name
Acrasis rosea L.S. Olive & Stoianovic

Amoebae emerging from spores

Acrasis rosea is a species of slime mold ^[1] within the heterolobosea. ^[2]

References

1. Hellsten M, Roos UP (June 1998). "The actomyosin cytoskeleton of amoebae of the cellular slime molds acrasis rosea and protostelium mycophaga: structure, biochemical properties, and function". Fungal Genet. Biol. 24 (1–2): 123–45. doi:10.1006/fgbi.1998.1048. PMID   9742198.
2. Archibald JM, O'Kelly CJ, Doolittle WF (April 2002). "The chaperonin genes of jakobid and jakobid-like flagellates: implications for eukaryotic evolution". Mol. Biol. Evol. 19 (4): 422–31. doi: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a004097 . PMID   11919283.

Further reading

• Brown, Matthew W.; Silberman, Jeffrey D.; Spiegel, Frederick W. (May 2012). "A contemporary evaluation of the acrasids (Acrasidae, Heterolobosea, Excavata)". European Journal of Protistology. 48 (2): 103–123. doi:10.1016/j.ejop.2011.10.001. PMID   22154141.
• Reinhardt, Donald (August 1975). "Natural Variants of the Cellular Slime Mold Acrasis rosea". The Journal of Protozoology. 22 (3): 309. doi:10.1111/j.1550-7408.1975.tb05176.x.