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- uncountablebiologyThe development of ascospores inside an ascus.
Production of heterogeneous sclerotia may facilitate hybridization of strains during subsequent ascogeny.
1992, Microbiology Abstracts, page 432 more examples
A species in its entirety can be recognized from characters derived from ascogeny and/or mitospore production.
1994, Fifth International Mycological Congress, page 179A discarded hypothesis held that a second karyogamy event occurred in the ascogonium prior to ascogeny, resulting in a tetraploid nucleus which divided into four diploid nuclei by meiosis and then into eight haploid nuclei by a supposed process called brachymeiosis, but this hypothesis was disproven in the 1950s.
2019, Zaid Hays, Danny Watson, Fungal Ecology, Diversity and Metabolites, page 57
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