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...

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...

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...

Fungal cell cycle showing dikaryons typical of higher fungi...

at their base. The croziers help maintain a brief dikaryon. The compatible nuclei of the dikaryon merge forming a diploid nucleus that then undergoes...

maintenance of sexual reproduction in the Ascomycota and Basidiomycota (dikaryon) fungi was reviewed by Wallen and Perlin. They concluded that the most...

masking recessive deleterious mutations in genes which function in the dikaryon and/or diploid stage of the life cycle. Mating types likely predate anisogamy...

where monokaryons or germinating spores can only mate and form a fertile dikaryon with an individual that possesses a different mating-type factor. There...

cell structure for many fungi. Most fungi of Basidiomycota exist as a dikaryon in which thread-like cells of the mycelium are partially partitioned into...

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...