… In both filamentous fungi and the yeasts, sexual reproduction … our understanding of sexual
reproduction in filamentous fungi is … further experimental evidence to support the importance of …

… fungi. The dominant life stage is homokaryotic and haploid (n), and during sexual reproduction
there is a brief dikaryotic … The maintenance of functional mitochondrial DNA within and …

… Although sexual reproduction renders many advantages like … monokaryotic yeast form
and filamentous dikaryotic form. … Mushrooms maintain the dikaryotic stage by forming: (1) …

… using fungi to study the evolution of sexual reproduction and its … mating type to form a dikaryon.
One parental nucleus is then … pathogens that need to maintain adapted genomes in large …

… a dikaryotic portion of the life cycle, production of both sexual … some fungi are apparently not
capable of sexual reproduction… for self-maintenance, growth, or reproduction. These include …

… maintenance of fertilization potential by dikaryons leads to a higher proportion of fertilized
monokaryons, but that the ensuing intradikaryon … sexual reproduction, particularly the male role…

… fungi; produce asexual conidia exogenously on conidiophores in filamentous fungi and
undergo budding (asexual reproduction) … haploid nuclei (so called dikaryon) that are capable of …

… The dikaryon forms after fusion of genetically … asexual reproduction does not involve any
great increase in metabolic activity over that of vegetative growth, whereas sexual reproduction …

… fungi develop on organic and inorganic materials in all ecosystems they are in and maintain
… Sexual reproduction in fungi takes place in three stages. In the first stage; haploid cells fuse, …

… In both sexual and asexual reproduction, fungi produce … of landing in an environment that
will support growth (Fig 7). … both haploid and dikaryotic mycelia, with the dikaryotic phase being …