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Soil Acrasieæ and their Bacterial Food Supply

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ALTHOUGH the genera Dictyostelium and Polysphondylium were created by Brefeld1,2 in 1869 and 1884, no study has been made in Britain of that interesting group, the Acrasieæ, to which they belong. The occurrence of Dictyostelium in Polish and American soils has been recorded by Krzemieniewsky3 and by Raper and Thorn4. Polysphondylium has been isolated from soil on rare occasions.

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  1. Department of Soil Microbiology, Rothamsted Experimental Station, Harpenden, Herts

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SINGH, B. Soil Acrasieæ and their Bacterial Food Supply. Nature 157, 133–134 (1946). https://doi.org/10.1038/157133b0

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