The release of elongated, sheathed ascospores from bottle-shaped asci in Dipodascus geniculatus

FEMS Yeast Research

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 173-179

  Van Heerden, Ané ^a   Van Wyk, Pieter W J ^a   Botes, Piet J ^a   Pohl, Carolina H ^a   Strauss, Catharina J ^a   Nigam, Santosh ^b   Kock, Johan L F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE FREE STATE   (South Africa)

^b CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

3 hydroxy oxylipins; Compressible sheaths; Dipodascus geniculatus; Elongated ascospore; Release mechanism

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DIPODASCUS GENICULATUS; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; REPRODUCTION; SPOROGENESIS; YEAST;

LIPIDS; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; SACCHAROMYCETALES; SPORES, FUNGAL;

DIPODASCUS GENICULATUS;

EID: 33846980449     PISSN: 15671356     EISSN: 15671364     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1567-1364.2006.00177.x     Document Type: Article

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