A zygospore is a diploid reproductive stage in the life cycle of many fungi and protists. Zygospores are created by the nuclear fusion of haploid cells...
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homothallic or heterothallic. It is also the fungus from which the term "zygospore" was coined. Syzygites megalocarpus produces phototropic, repeatedly dichotomously...
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(non-motile). These spores are endogenously produced in sporangium. A zygospore is formed by fusion of two gametes. These gametes are similar in morphology...
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develop into warty structures that make up the thickness of the zygospore wall. As the zygospore enlarges, so do the warty structures until there are contiguous...
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sexual reproduction, a dark zygospore is produced at the point where two compatible mycelia fuse. Upon germination, a zygospore produces colonies that are...
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result of which is the formation of a diploid cell called the zygote or zygospore. German zoologists Oscar and Richard Hertwig made some of the first discoveries...
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immature zygospore. Initially the developing zygospore contains thousands of nuclei contributed by the gametangia. During the course of zygospore maturation...
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forming a single-celled zygospore, the characteristic that gives its name to this group of fungi. Meiosis occurs within the zygospore (see article Phycomyces)...
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Reproduction/spore teleomorph/sexual: Zygospore Ascospore/Ascus Basidiospore/Basidium/Teliospore anamorph/asexual: Sporangium Conidium Chlamydospore Oidium...
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zygosporangium develops. The zygosporangium typically contains a single zygospore. Nuclear karyogamy and meiosis (sexual recombination) occur within it...
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the spore. Zygospores are formed in certain fungi (zygomycota, for example Rhizopus) and some algae (for example Chlamydomonas). The zygospore forms through...
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Chlamydospores of the yeast Candida albicans Fungi portal Conidium Resting spore Zygospore Staib, P; Morschhäuser, J (2007). "Chlamydospore formation in Candida...
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cell, B: Zoospores in cell division, C: Mating gametes, D: Ripe zygospore, E: Zygospore germination Scientific classification (unranked): Viridiplantae...
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The gametangium develops into a zygospore, a thick-walled spore formed by the union of gametes. When the zygospore germinates, it undergoes meiosis,...
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Azygospore is an asexually formed zygospore in fungi. Also known as parthenogenically formed from a gamete without gametic fusion. Sometimes, gametangia...
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example, in zygomycetes the thick-walled zygosporangium cracks open and the zygospore inside gives rise to the emerging sporangiophore. In slime molds, germination...
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a dormant diploid zygote (zygospore) capable of surviving in harsh environments. Once conditions have improved the zygospore germinates and undergoes meiosis...
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tube and fuses with the female cytoplasm, and the gametes fuse to form a zygospore. In lateral conjugation, gametes are formed in a single filament. Two...
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containing two copies of the genome. This diploid cell, called a zygote or zygospore can then enter meiosis (a process of chromosome duplication, recombination...
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zygote matures into a full zygospore after a few days; the zygospore is irregularly ellipsoid in shape. When the zygospore germinates, it releases its...
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in the form of hyphae make contact with each other, producing diploid zygospores. The sporangiophore contains both '+' and '−' mating type strains in the...
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(transmission of DNA through nucleus fusion to form a hypnozygote or zygospore, which is a term for a zygote that lies dormant until optimal conditions...
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markers were mostly PCR-based restriction fragment length polymorphisms. Zygospores are the sexual structures of P. blakesleeanus in which the diploid zygote...
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Heterothallic strains of different mating type can conjugate to form zygospores. Sex pheromones termed protoplast-release inducing proteins (glycopolypeptides)...
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dormant diploid zygospores. Some populations form zygospores within single clones of cells (homothallic), whereas others form zygospores between different...
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spore, sporocarp, sporophyte, teliospore, tetraspore, tetrasporophytic, zygospore spele- cavern Greek σπέος (spéos), σπήλαιον (spḗlaion) speleogen, speleogenesis...
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Mortierella-like fungi are asexual. However, if zygospores are found, they strongly resemble Mucor-zygospores. Sometimes sexual structures are embedded in...
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S2CID 51945556. COESEL, PETER; VANHOOF, ANDRÉ; MEESTERS, KOOS (2017-12-01). "Zygospore morphology in the conjugating green alga Spirotaenia diplohelica (Streptophyta...
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conidia per conidiophore, dimensions of hyphae, and presence or absence of zygospores all vary between species of Stylopage. Almost all species that produce...
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