Meanings
noun
- pluralplural of hypovalve
However, many auxospores developed directly from the elongated cell without uneven cytokinesis or rudimentary-valve formation because we only infrequently observed residual bodies and vestigial hypovalves associated with the auxospores when they remained attached to their native filaments.
2015 October 21, “Auxosporulation in Paralia guyana MacGillivary (Bacillariophyta) and Possible New Insights into the Habit of the Earliest Diatoms”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI
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