#sporulation

[aadamantine]

whenever i say sporulation in mold class i say it like flawed peacock says stimulation. SPOR-U-LA-TION!!!

[beta-beast]

Reposting them to keep them together, creatures Mildew and Mold

[artgletic]

theyre rly funny

[shroomsnail]

researchers trying to grow and isolate arctic microbes 🤝 cyanobacteria 🤝 lichens 🤝 some fungi 🤝 obligate intracellular bacteria 🤝 some protists 🤝 vbnc bacteria 🤝 archaea 🤝 strict anaerobes 🤝 literally anything that isnt pseudomonas or bacillus. pesky lil mfs (microbial friends)

[tenth-sentence]

After this fact one need not be surprised at the diffusion of the far lighter and smaller sporules of cryptogamic plants.

"Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries Visited During the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle Round the World, 1832-36" - Charles Darwin

[myxomycota]

its a beautiful baby Arcyria sp. :-)

a wee slime mold has invaded my mushroom growing tub !! why hello there handsome …. 😻🦠

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[homeofhousechickens]

Is there a way to test soil for coccidosis before introducing chickens? Or is it more of a "you get chickens, & find out" type of issue?

Coccidia is naturally in the soil and in the gut of chickens in a harmless form. You can assume some type of it is everywhere and there is no safe soil treatment to get rid out it. Chickens aren't the only animal affected either other animals get sick with it as well but chickens are always scratching and pecking at the ground and their own poop which is why they pick it up so easily. Coccidia is actually normally harmless it isnt in-till a bird sheds the oocysts and they have the right conditions to sporulate and THEN a bird ingests them again do they become a problem. Every chicken is bound to be exposed eventually, even indoor chickens.

[gatheringbones]

[“One of the drivers behind rainfall is something very curious indeed: fungal spores. The group of fungi that produce mushrooms, called basidiomycetes, grow through an osmotic inflation process, their hyphae bonding together and filling with water in order to “bloom” above the soil. Once the mushrooms have developed, tiny stalks (basidia) grow underneath the mushroom cap, culminating in tiny spores. A drop of water forms between the gills under a mushroom’s cap. Finally, the water droplet condenses against the spore, jettisoning the spore out of the mushroom.

In his book Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World, mycologist Paul Stamets estimates that the force with which mushrooms eject spores is ten thousand times the force undergone by astronauts as they exit the gravitational pull of Earth’s orbit. Some land many inches away from the original mushroom. But most are buoyed upward by the wind, into the sky. Spores are practically invisible, a shimmer of dust, vaporous. But while they are tiny, they are numerous. More numerous than just about any other organic component in the atmosphere. Every year, around fifty million tons of spores enters into the atmosphere. Some of those spores will immediately land in the dirt and begin, hypha by hypha, to root into the underworld. But millions of tons of spores do something else entirely. Some make it fifty miles up into the air and ride the currents for weeks. They follow the wind. And, like the storm gods, they generate rain. Sugars on the spores’ surface cause water to condense around them once they have been ejected. Spores become a nucleus of sorts in a floating water molecule. These water-coated spores bump into each other, again and again, millions of times, until they accumulate into rain clouds.

In experiments conducted in closed laboratory settings with a variety of different mushrooms, spores created an atmosphere with a relative humidity between 101 and 102 percent, the same oversaturation conditions found in clouds. Researchers concluded that fungi are a key part of a feedback loop in forests and rainy regions. Fungi need damp environments in order to fruit up into reproducing mushrooms. These mushrooms release billions of spores that create clouds. These sporulated clouds, in turn, drop rain down into these environments, creating the perfect mushroom conditions. Whole tropical ecosystems are intimately coordinated by these invisible swarms of spores. Given these facts, we can surmise that as we degrade soil and destroy underground mycelial communities, we are not only harming the ground, we are harming the sky. The source of rain isn’t always above our heads. Sometimes it comes from below our feet.”]

Sophie Strand, from The Flowering Wand: Rewilding the Sacred Masculine

[okkultmotionpictures]

Excerpts: MOULD AND YEAST (1927)

An animated diagram demonstrates the growth and sporulation of common yeast strains, both positive and negative. Additionally, it showcases the budding process of yeast and its application in bread-making.

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[minmos]

my dryer has a dryness setting that has to be manually adjusted to "fully dry" every time you use it Does anyone know the meaning of this? thankyou i want my clothes to still be slightly damp so i can maximize my mildew output. i wanna be sporulating

[dougdimmadodo]

Fast Fauna Facts #6 - Hay Bacillus (Bacillus subtilis)

Family: Bacillus Family (Bacillaceae)

IUCN Conservation Status: Unassessed

These pill-shaped, non-pathogenic bacteria are extremely common, and can be found in soil, in water and as a harmless resident of the digestive systems of animals worldwide. They're most common in soil that is rich in organic matter, and "feed" by absorbing sufficiently small organic molecules across their cell membrane. When food is abundant Hay Bacilli are stationary, but when suitably-sized organic molecules become scarcer they develop numerous flagella (tail-like extensions of their cell walls) in order to swim or crawl to new areas. When faced with a total lack of resources or harsh environmental conditions members of this species undergo a process called sporulation in which they essentially create a copy of their genetic material, encase it in a tough protective membrane and release it into their environment where it lies dormant as an extremely durable structure called an endospore, developing into a new but genetically identical bacterium when conditions improve.

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[myxomycota]

slime molds tend to mature quite rapidly from goopy plasmodial slime to a more solid (yet still very delicate) fruit body, which will then dehisce and sporulate. this is the development of a Stemonitis sp. after a few hours by Sarah Lloyd

[detritvs]

hey i know u said u found god in this prairie but i actually put her there as a restoration effort so im really sorry but if u could bring her back so she can sporulate and inoculate the soil it would really help the ecosystem :)

[coldalbion]

The Nest of Snakes

So:

What if I told you

That the blind

Might sense more

Than the sharpest

Eyes of Eagles?

The deaf more

Than the keenest

Ear - Infinite Angels

Toppling

From their pins - dropping like

A cacophony of Wings and Eyes?

Serpent-wreathed bulls more

Animate than animal:

Would you believe?

Me: told as I am (more)

As we are,

Never-the-Less

Make lies into truth

And Truth into Lies.

Hence, twixt, thus

Play host:

Ghost-with-the most -

Lord of Strangers

For flesh is

Wyrm-ridden and

Seething

I: a strait-jacketing inside,

A ward of madness;

Listen to howling griefsong

Psyche cries there for Eros -

Blót, blood poured out,

Swelling, blossoming - a blooming rose

Iron-thorn sacrifice

Bark makes a door

Of skin.

Host-lord

Ever between (inter) betwixt

Faces

Masked, hatted, hooded

So the sibilant-prophet

Reveals via concealment:

Mouth of Ash

Roarer

Hanged-jaw juddering

In freezing, starry silence

Deepest night and richest

Twilight

Shapeshifting thief of always -

Matter's of Matrix - ever-fugitive

And fork-tongued:

Sing of rivers risng

Lame

From their beds

Asleep no more;

They never-were

The doubled, tripled ones

Pouring forth

From the Mount of Venus

Mother i' the Mountain

Pads with feline grace

Bloody muzzle, gleaming teeth

Gold-gleam brewing

Honey of ancestral bees

The grave drones

Of kosmic sporulation

I cannot tell you of

One single thing

But the more

Such as I ken

So must I lie

Would you know yet more?

[twistedwonderlandshenanigans]

World Building for Infection/Apocalypse AUS - A General Guide

okay so this isn't DIRECTLY related to TWST but I have a project that's been in the works for a while that I might MIGHT launch in January. I also can't claim that this information is 100% correct bc I largely did it off the top of my head (AS someone who is going to school to become a microbiologist/related fields) ANYWAYS enjoy. maybe. idk. I got disproportionately mad one day about some au that was switching between 'virus' and something else I can't even remember and went on a rant on discord that I'm just posting here

If anybody ever wants to write an infection au with science as a base.

Putting it under the cut in case it makes anybody uncomfy OTL (also mentions of cannibalism in the "Prion" section)

Bacteria are usually NOT the issue. Bacteriophages are viruses that infect bacteria, which then can infect us. There ARE some pathogenic bacteria without viruses. They are treated with antibiotics based on their cell morphology and structure. Most of the time, you can wait out a bacteriological infection, such as the common cold.

Symptoms can show up from anywhere between 12 hours to 6 weeks depending on what it is.

Bacteria are unlikely to be the cause of a zombie apocalypse, however vaccines against bacterial infections ARE possible, (but unlikely due to most bacterial infections simply "running their course"), and are easier to develop for bacteria rather than viruses. -------------------------------

Viruses are delivered in protein-covered capsules that interact with other cells in order to "open" it and release the infectious RNA into the healthy cell. (Essentially, it's a little dude with a hat that cells open a door to. Once they let the little dude in, little dude takes over and acts like an overbearing mother in law, rearranging everything until it's how IT likes it, and proceeds to brag about it to neighbours, making it a trend/passing it on.)

It's the protein cap/envelope that we develop vaccines for, at least in most cases.

If you want it to cause zombie-like attributes in terms of brain function, Encephalitis is a good place to start your research. (Viral infection of the brain that causes swelling and eventual cell death).

Symptoms typically become apparent within 2 days of infection.

If an apocalypse starts because of a virus, a vaccine WOULD be possible/likely. ANTIBIOTICS HAVE NO EFFECT ON VIRUSES. ------------------------

Parasites are typically found in the intestines, as they want to leech off of the nutrients you are supposed to be getting. (That being said, tapeworm has been recorded as having been found in the brain once or twice. Brother How. I don't know). That being said, being infected with that type of parasite would make you very hungry and very dehydrated, but these type are hard to pass on from person, unless you made it kind of like Alien where a big fucken worm goes into one person, lays eggs, those hatch and explode and spread to other people.

You could also draw inspiration from the creatures that cause Swimmer's Itch or Scabies, which infect the skin instead. VERY easy to spread, fairly easy to treat. Can be treated with something as simple as cold water, or medicated creams.

Not likely to cause an actual apocalypse, but a lot of fun creative freedom with these bitches.

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Fungi can be used for a fun twist. MOST modern day zombie movies are inspired by the Ophiocordyceps unilateralis - the zombie-ant fungus. In a more general sense, fungal infections of the lungs are :sparkles: scary :sparkles:. Usually molds are inhaled. Molds can't thrive inside the body "as is", so they undergo transformation to essentially become a type of yeast. This means symptoms can take a WHILE to show up - anywhere from about three days to THREE MONTHS. Fungal infections also often resemble bacterial infections, making them more difficult to diagnose. The longer it's left to sporulate, the more it will target areas of the body - including the brain, the meninges, your bones, your joints, etc. If it reaches your brain, it can no longer be cured, but it can be managed with antifungal drugs.

However, fungal infections are not typically contagious, which is where the zombie ant fungus explains how to spread it ^^

The zombie ant fungus spores are inhaled, and instead of turning into a yeast, it grows out of the ants head ^^ After about seven days, it gives the ant a signal to position itself over it's colony, so when the mushroom releases it's spores, it has a myriad of hosts to infect!

Fungal infections would have no vaccine, and antibiotics would not work.. An Anti-fungal medication would have to be developed and administered early enough in contraction to prevent any serious long lasting effects.

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Prions are infectious proteins. They have no cap/envelope. Prions cause holes to form in the central nervous system, impairing judgement, coordination, etc. etc. They are very slow forming, as they often take years to develop. In cows they are the result of old age, in sheep, they are the result of genetic predisposition, in humans it was because of cannibalism! We don't know why they started. Prion infections occur when someone consumes infectious matter, which is limited to the CNS, or when contaminated surgical tools are used.

There is no cure or preventative measures for prion diseases.

Prions can only die if they are incinerated or in chemicals that are WAY too expensive for me to pronounce.

Obviously in an au, their development could be sped up.

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Honourable Mention: Viroids Viroids affect plants specifically as a short strand of circular RNA that is capable of self replicating. Unlike viruses, they have no protein cap or envelope, meaning they're susceptible to destruction and mutation from other genes. However, they cause major deformation as well as impeding functions of other genes in the plant. If it were to mutate to affect humans, it would likely contort us and affect our ability to metabolize food.

--------------------- :P I just wanted to feel like I did something this week, even though this is technically from like. 2 weeks ago. oh well