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ascus::noun | Spocien Dictionary
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An ascus is a capsule containing the sexualascospores produced in ascomycetefungi.
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The shape of the ascus is important for species classification within the Ascomycota phylum.
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Spores are arranged in two parallel rows in the ascus.
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These fungi form meiotic spores called ascospores, which are enclosed in a special sac-like structure called an ascus.
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In the Ascomycota, spores develop within a microscopic elongated, saclike cell called an ascus, which typically contains eight spores.
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In this process, a small flat cap retracts to form a roughly spherical or irregular, temporary structure at the tip of the ascus.
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Alternatively, it may undergo meiosis, producing a sac-like structure, the ascus, containing four ascospores which then germinate into further haploid cells.
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Historically, Chorioactis was placed in the Sarcosomataceae family of fungi, despite inconsistencies in the microscopic structure of the ascus, the saclike structure in which spores are formed.
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- Saclike structure in which ascospores are formed through sexual reproduction of ascomycetes
- An ascus (plural asci; from Greek "skin bag") is the sexual spore-bearing cell produced in ascomycete fungi. On average, asci normally contain eight ascospores, produced by a meiotic cell division followed, in most species, by a mitotic cell division. ...
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- The ascus is a diagnostic morphological feature of the bryozoan suborder Ascophora (hence the name of the suborder). It is a water-filled sac of frontal membrane opening (ascopore) at or near the zooid orifice. ...
- A specialized sexual reproductive cell found in the fertile area of the hymenium of all Ascomycetes. An ascus is typically club shaped and which forms internally 4 or 8 ascospores, usually in a row.
- (pl. = ASCI) - the meiosporangium of the Ascomycetes: originally evolved as a spore-gun in terrestrial environments.
- A cell that is the site of meiosis and in which endogenous spores (usually meiospores but sometimes also ascoconidia) are formed. (Pl. asci.) (15)
- A sac-like cell containing ascospores. Asci are characteristic of the Ascomycetes.
- A sac like structure that contains ascospores
