Labyrinthulomycetes / Labyrinthulea used to belong to the defunct fungal phylum Labyrinthulomycota.

They were originally represented by the subkingdom Gymnomycota in the Fungi kingdom and included the defunct phyla Myxomycota, Acrasiomycota and Labyrinthulomycota.

Genetic and ultrastructural evidence place the Phaeophyceae among the heterokonts ( Stramenopiles ), a large assemblage of organisms that includes both photosynthetic members with plastids ( such as the diatoms ) as well as non-photosynthetic groups ( such as the slime nets and water molds ).

Effective catch and release fishing techniques avoid excessive fish fighting and handling times, avoid damage to fish skin, scale and slime layers by nets, dry hands and dry surfaces ( that leave fish vulnerable to fungal skin infections ), and avoid damage to throat ligaments and gills by poor handling techniques.

Among the obstacles are demonic monsters, pits of toxic or radioactive slime, ceilings that lower and crush the player, and locked doors for which a keycard, skull-shaped key device, or remote switch must be located.

This is mostly seen with the myxomycetes, which are the only macroscopic slime molds.

Today, slime molds have been divided between several supergroups, none of which are included in the kingdom Fungi.

A common slime mold which forms tiny brown tufts on rotting logs is Stemonitis.

* Acrasids ( Order Acrasida ): slime molds which belong to the Heterolobosea within the super group Excavata.

* Fonticula is a cellular slime mold which forms a fruiting body in a volcano shape.

The name Weser parallels the names of other rivers such as the Wear in England and the Vistula in Poland, all of which are ultimately derived from the root * weis-" to flow ", which gave Old English / Old Frisian wāse " mud, ooze ", Old Norse veisa " slime, stagnant pool ", Dutch waas " lawn ", Old Saxon waso " wet ground, mire ", and Old High German wasal " rain ".

Most common in tropical regions of the Southern Hemisphere, they prey on smaller animals such as insects, which they catch by squirting an adhesive slime.

These lie roughly in the centre of the body and secrete a sort of milky-white slime, which is used to ensnare prey and for defensive purposes.

Sometimes the connecting " slime conductor " is broadened into a reservoir, which can buffer pre-produced slime.

The slime can be propelled up to four centimetres, although accuracy drops with range, which is usually much shorter than this.

The slime, which can account for up to 11 % of the organism's dry weight, is 90 % water ; its dry residue consists mainly of proteins — primarily a collagen-type protein.

They have been observed to spend up to ten minutes searching for removed prey, after which they return to their slime to eat it.

Biofilm EPS, which is also referred to as slime ( although not everything described as slime is a biofilm ), is a polymeric conglomeration generally composed of extracellular DNA, proteins, and polysaccharides.

Viewers in the U. S. made slime and water sounds with their mouths and sending in their own entries for the Slime-In, a contest hosted by Nickelodeon that flew the winner to the set of You Can't Do That On Television to be slimed ( which was later replicated by Canada's YTV, with their version being called the Slime Light Sweepstakes ).

The first episode in which " I don't know " was used as a trigger phrase for the green slime was one of the local episodes seen only on CJOH, broadcast on March 17, 1979 — fittingly, St. Patrick's Day.

1981's " Safety First " episode, which featured white slime as part of a recurring joke in about " wearing white at night ," was the first episode known to have used a slime color other than green.

The most dramatic example of this was in the 1982 episode " Television ," in which Christine is slimed in green, red, blue, yellow and " stripes " ( red, blue, and yellow at once ), while trying to explain about green slime to then-newcomer Vanessa Lindores.

On the show, the recipe for the green slime was treated as a closely guarded secret, with attempts by the kids to find out the true recipe all being unsuccessful ( in one episode, Ross ( Les Lye ) even went so far as to decoy the kids with a fake recipe ), although some episodes posited revolting theories as to what the slime was really made of-one 1989 episode which dealt with smoking, for example, theorized that slime was mucus from smokers ' lungs.

In more strict terms, slime molds comprise the mycetozoan group of the amoebozoa.

The myxobacteria (" slime bacteria ") are a group of bacteria that predominantly live in the soil and feed on insoluble organic substances.

The dictyostelids are a group of cellular slime molds, or social amoebae.

The Myxozoa ( etymology: Greek: μύξα myxa " slime " or " mucus " + thematic vowel o + ζῷον zoon " animals ") are a group of parasitic animals of aquatic environments.

The main plot of the game is a blue slime is trying to save his family and friends that were kidnapped by a group of monsters called the Tails Brigade.

An interesting example of altruism is found in the cellular slime moulds, such as Dictyostelium mucoroides.

Amoebas seem to have connections with two phyla ( now defunct ) composed of multicellular organisms of the lineage of fungus-like protists, the so-called slime molds.

These two defunct phyla were the Myxomycota ( i. e., plasmodial slime molds, now classified in the taxon Myxogastria ), and Acrasiomycota ( i. e. cellular slime molds, now divided into the taxa Acrasida and Dictyosteliida ).

Myxomycete slime molds use amoeboid gametes, as well.

They are slime molds that feed as unicellular amoebae, but aggregate into a reproductive stalk and sporangium under certain conditions.

We dare not seriously affirm it, but all the same it is certain that man came out of the slime of the earth, and his first appearance must have been in the form of a rough sketch.

This occurs most notably among the fungi and slime moulds, but is found in various groups.

Several algae species are multicellular protists, and slime molds have unique life cycles that involve switching between unicellular, colonial, and multicellular forms.

However, even sponges, unicellular animals, and non-animals such as slime molds have cell-to-cell signalling mechanisms that are precursors to those of neurons.

In Ghostbusters II, the " river of slime " under New York city is found by the Ghostbusters boys to be flowing through an old pneumatic tube line – a reference to the Beach Pneumatic Transit tube.

Found in a wide variety of colours, more than 900 species of slime mold occur all over the world and feed on microorganisms that live in any type of dead plant material.

One of the most commonly encountered slime molds is the yellow Physarum polycephalum, found both in nature in forests in temperate zones, as well as in classrooms and laboratories.

Most slime molds are smaller than a few centimeters, but some species may reach sizes of up to several square meters and masses of up to 30 grams.

When food is abundant a slime mold exists as a single-celled organism, but when food is in short supply, slime molds congregate and start moving as a single body.

* A plasmodial slime mold is enclosed within a single membrane without walls and is one large cell.

* By contrast, cellular slime molds spend most of their lives as individual unicellular protists, but when a chemical signal is secreted, they assemble into a cluster that acts as one organism.