A sorocarp (from the Greek word soros "a heap" + karpos "fruit") is the fruiting body characteristic of certain cellular slime moulds (e.g., Dictyosteliida). Each sorocarp consists of both a sorophore (stalk) and a sorus.[1][2] Sorocarps release spores.
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^Lawrence, E. 2005. Henderson's Dictionary of Biology, 13th Ed. Prentice Hall, London
(e.g., Dictyosteliida). Each sorocarp consists of both a sorophore (stalk) and a sorus. Sorocarps release spores. "Sorocarp — definition, examples, related...
of the sorocarp, its mature fruiting body, is white to pale yellow, reaching a height range of 300–800 µm. The sorocysts along the sorocarps can be arranged...
fern. The indusia have opened, revealing the sporangia. Scale bar, 1 mm Sorocarp DiversityOfLife – Fern identification tool. Encyclopædia Britannica: sorus...
fruiting stage. The fruiting body of the genus has a unique shape, as its sorocarp resembles a volcano and sorus looks like a ball of hot lava emerging from...
to migrate. Under the correct circumstances the grex matures forming a sorocarp (fruiting body) with a stalk supporting one or more sori (balls of spores)...
slug which crawls to an open lit place and grows into a fruiting body, a sorocarp. Some of the amoebae become spores to begin the next generation, but others...
protists that behave as slime molds and develop fruiting bodies, either as sorocarps or as sporocarps. It is a monophyletic group or clade within the phylum...
fruiting bodies known as sporocarps (originated from a single cell) and sorocarps (from aggregations of cells). Phagotrophic protists are abundant and essential...
life cycle of D. discoideum begins when spores are released from a mature sorocarp (fruiting body). Myxamoebae hatch from the spores under warm and moist...
multicellularity has evolved to generate "fungi-like" fruiting bodies called sorocarps, similarly to slime moulds such as Dictyostelium. The helkesid amoebae...
Sporocarp (ferns), specialized spore-producing structure found in some ferns Sorocarp, the fruiting body of certain cellular slime moulds This disambiguation...
this species changes shape continuously as if it were dancing. L. hula sorocarps have an average height of 23.7 μm and are made up of a single spore and...
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