摘要：The diplo-haplontic life cycle of myxomycetes produces a genetic system with clonal gametes, which provide a number of opportunities and difficulties that those unfamiliar with the group might find confusing. Therefore, we provide a guide to the Mendelian genetics of the myxomycetes for those who are interested in expanding their taxonomic and environmental research in this group. The ability of the haploid unicellular myxamoeba, which reproduces by mitotic division to produce a clonal population, and to convert directly into a gamete, is the basis of the special characteristics of myxomycete genetics. Since the same clonal lines can be used in multiple different specific crosses, genetic information, which can be used in future crosses, can be built up for those lines. This allows the researcher to study multi-gene traits such as the plasmodial coalescence system
