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Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi: hyphal fusion and multigenomic structure.
Nature - 13 Jan 2005
Bever James D, Wang Mei
Abstract excerpt
Arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi (Glomeromycota) reproduce asexually, are multinucleate, and have high genetic variation within single cells. Pawlowska and Taylor find that genetic variation within AM fungal cells is not lost as a result of segregation, and they interpret this as evidence that the variation is present within each nucleus and that all nuclei within individual spores are genetically identical...
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