Distribution
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Within North America, there are hundreds of plasmodial slime mold species (Treeful & Ash, 2000). However, slime molds are said to exist almost everywhere in the world. The Eumycetozoan Research Project for example, has “spent years trying to catalog all species of slime mold around the globe from the Arctic Circle to the tip of Chile” (Zimmer, 2011). Slime molds as a whole can exist in all different soils (Treeful & Ash, 2000).
The fact that there is not an abundance of information on Plasmodial Slime Molds and their specific locations is most likely due to the fact that scientists are just starting to understand them and study them more. Until recently scientists actually believed slime molds were fungi, but have now realized they are in fact Protists (American Society for Microbiology, 2014). There continue to be many studies around these incredibly clever and strange creatures.
The fact that there is not an abundance of information on Plasmodial Slime Molds and their specific locations is most likely due to the fact that scientists are just starting to understand them and study them more. Until recently scientists actually believed slime molds were fungi, but have now realized they are in fact Protists (American Society for Microbiology, 2014). There continue to be many studies around these incredibly clever and strange creatures.