新黏菌品种的发现将给科学家提供机会验证这些可能性，巴尔道夫博士说。

Finding new species of slime molds will let scientists test these possibilities, Dr. Baldauf said.

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“他们或许与陆地土壤的变迁有紧密联系，”瑞典生物学家巴尔道夫说。他正在对黏菌工程中发现的黏菌品种进行DNA分析。

"They might be tightly linked to the development of soil on land," said Dr. Baldauf, the Swedish biologist, who is analyzing the DNA of species discovered in the Eumycetozoan Project.

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“他们可能和陆地生态系统一样古老，”瑞典乌普萨拉大学进化生物学家桑德拉·巴尔道夫（Sandra Baldauf）说。

They may be as old as the terrestrial ecosystem, ” said Sandra Baldauf, an evolutionary biologist at Uppsala University in Sweden.

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