basidiomycotan

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noun

Any fungus of the division Basidiomycota

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Meanings

nounbasidiomycotan (plural basidiomycotans)

plural basidiomycotans

  1. Any fungus of the division Basidiomycota
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    The Ambrosiodmus-Flavodon symbiosis is unique in several aspects: it is the first reported association between an ambrosia beetle and a basidiomycotan fungus; the mycosymbiont grows as hyphae in the mycangia, not as budding pseudo-mycelium; and the mycosymbiont is a white-rot saprophyte rather than an early colonizer: a previously undocumented wood borer niche.

    2015 September 15, “New Fungus-Insect Symbiosis: Culturing, Molecular, and Histological Methods Determine Saprophytic Polyporales Mutualists of Ambrosiodmus Ambrosia Beetles”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Origin

From taxonomic name Basidiomycota + -an.

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