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    The dikaryon is a nuclear feature that is unique to certain fungi. (The green alga Derbesia had been long considered an exception, until the heterokaryotic...
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    Karyogamy is delayed, so that the compatible nuclei remain in pairs, called a dikaryon. The hyphae are then said to be dikaryotic. Conversely, the haploid mycelia...
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  • a mononuclear spore or cell of a fungus that produces a dikaryon in its life cycle. Dikaryon A Dictionary of Plant Sciences | 1998 | MICHAEL ALLABY Monokaryon...
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    Fungal cell cycle showing dikaryons typical of higher fungi...
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    at their base. The croziers help maintain a brief dikaryon. The compatible nuclei of the dikaryon merge forming a diploid nucleus that then undergoes...
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  • protein from its own group. Functional heterodimers are necessary for a dikaryon-specific transcription factor, and its lack arrests the development process...
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    successful mating to form dikaryotic hyphae (two haploid cells fuse to form a dikaryon). Ustilago esculenta is a species of fungus in the Ustilaginaceae, the...
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    where monokaryons or germinating spores can only mate and form a fertile dikaryon with an individual that possesses a different mating-type factor. There...
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    maintenance of sexual reproduction in the Ascomycota and Basidiomycota (dikaryon) fungi was reviewed by Wallen and Perlin. They concluded that the most...
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    whose cells possess a nucleus) that is not an animal, a land plant or a dikaryon fungus. Because of this definition by exclusion, protists encompass almost...
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