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Fungi Clamp Connection

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The Dikarya embrace two great phyla, the Ascomycota and the Basidiomycota, accounting for
the vast majority of fungi. The obvious difference between these two groups is the way that they
produce their spores following meiosis, depicted in the picture at left. The Basidiomycota
produce their meiospores, called basidiospores, externally on basidia (leftmost of the two
panels), while the Ascomycota produce theirs, called ascospores, in asci (right panel). To learn
more about these structures and how they produce their spores read the section on asci and
basidia. The picture at left does not do justice to the variety of these structures. Basidia can be
round or elongated, 1-spores to 8-spored, septate or nonseptate. Asci can be round to elongated
and contain a single spore or more than a thousand. Ascospores can range from single-celled to
many-celled. In general we can say that basidia are most commonly 4-spored and asci 8-spored,
and that basidiospores are almost always single-celled. One invariable fact is that basidiospores
are always borne externally on the basidium and ascospores are always borne internally in the
ascus.
There are other less obvious differences between the Asco- and Basidiomycota. Of course as
members of the Dikarya both groups spend part of their lives in a dikaryotic state, one in which
their cells contain two genetically different nuclei that divide together so that the daughter
nucleus of each one moves into the new cell.

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