- An
oospore is a thick-walled ****ual
spore that
develops from a
fertilized oosphere in some algae, fungi, and oomycetes. They are
believed to have evolved...
- or
bryophytes is an oosphere. When fertilized, the
oosphere becomes the
oospore.[clarification needed] When egg and
sperm fuse
during fertilisation, a...
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thickened hard wall to form an
oospore that
awaits favorable conditions for germination. Upon
germination the
diploid oospore undergoes meiosis, producing...
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nucleus and
enters a
resting stage as a diploid, thick-walled
oospore. The
germinating oospore undergoes mitosis and
gives rise to
diploid hyphae which reproduce...
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proximal (lower) half of the
oogonium (paragyny), and the
union producing oospores. Like animals, but not like most true fungi,
meiosis is gametic, and somatic...
- and fuse with the oosphere's
haploid nucleus forming a
diploid oospore. The
oospore is then
ready to
germinate and
develop into an
adult diploid somatic...
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Oospores of
Phytophthora agathidicida...
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basionym Pythium were
consistently known to be homothallic. Additionally,
oospores have been
shown to
occur only in
specific pairings of
certain sporangial...
- and can
reproduce both ****ually and a****ually. ****ual
reproduction of an
oospore is the
result of
contact between hyphae of male
antheridia and
female oogonia;...
- a
heterothallic oomycete that
overwinters as
oospores in leaf
litter and soil. In the spring,
oospores germinate to
produce macrosporangia,
which under...
