Fungi

Oomycetes - while not true fungi, these water molds are quite mycological.

 

Ascomycetes

Nematode trapping fungus Arthrobotrys in MicroAquarium on water crystal under plant litter as inoculant at ca. two weeks.

????Leophagus predacious on tardigrades
(images taken from Petri dish culture)

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Myxomycetes

Physarum polycephalum, a slime mold and not a true fungus, 12 hours after sclerotium added to agar coated, inner glass walls of MicroAquarium--excellent slide mount for observing cytoplasmic streaming with a compound microscope.


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