- An
akinete is an enveloped, thick-walled, non-motile,
dormant cell
formed by filamentous, heterocyst-forming
cyanobacteria under the
order Nostocales...
-
converted into
thick walled akinetes. Food
reserves are ac****ulated
within the
akinetes. When the
conditions are
favourable each
akinete develops into a new plant...
-
functional cell
differentiation such as
heterocysts (for
nitrogen fixation),
akinetes (resting
stage cells), and
hormogonia (reproductive,
motile filaments)...
- heterocyst-forming
bacteria can
differentiate into spore-like
cells called akinetes or
motile cells called hormogonia,
making them the most phenotyptically...
- κινεῖν (kineîn), κίνησις (kínēsis), κίνημα (kínēma) akinesia, akinesis,
akinete, akinetic, cinema, cinematic, diakinesis, dyskinesia, dyskinetic, hyperkinesia...
- κινεῖν (kineîn), κίνησις (kínēsis), κίνημα (kínēma) akinesia, akinesis,
akinete, akinetic, cinema, cinematic, diakinesis, dyskinesia, dyskinetic, hyperkinesia...
- content, and pH.
During the winter,
Aphanizomenon flos-aquae
persists as
akinetes deep in the
layers of sediment.
These dormant cyanobacterial cells will...
- unicellular,
filamentous cyanobacteria, and some may
contain heterocysts and
akinetes.
Cyanobacteria differentiate into
hormogonia when
exposed to an environmental...
-
produced from the
parent cells by mitosis. Also by aplanospores, hypnospores,
akinetes,
Palmella stage, etc. ****ual
reproduction of
Chlorophyceae is isogamous...
- ****ually. A****ual
reproduction takes place via fragmentation, cell division,
akinete formation, or parthenospores. ****ual
reproduction in the Zygnematophyceae...
