ascospore

Japanese: ascospore

…In Ascospores, a pouch-like sporangium (ascus) is formed after sexual reproduction. It is often cylindrical or club-shaped and contains eight ascospores inside. When the reproductive cells of the male and female hyphae join together, the two nuclei from both hyphae usually do not fuse immediately, and a binucleate hyphae called a cyst develops. …

From [Spore]

…Amokine spores are widely found in algae, fungi, bryophytes, and vascular plants, and are generally thought to have originated from kineospores. Kineospores have distinctive shapes and formations, and are called carpospores and tetraspores in red algae, ascospores in ascomycetes, and basidiospores in basidiomycetes. In bryophytes and vascular plants, they are simply called spores. …

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Japanese:

…子囊菌類において有性生殖の後に生じる袋状の胞子囊ascus。多くの場合，円筒形または棍棒状で内部に8個の子囊胞子ascosporeを生じる。雌雄の菌糸に生じた生殖細胞が接合すると，両菌糸に由来する2個の核はふつうすぐには融合せず，造囊糸という2核性の菌糸が発達する。…

【胞子】より

…不動胞子は藻類，菌類，コケ植物，維管束植物に広くみられ，一般に動胞子から由来したと考えられる。動胞子は形態やでき方が特徴的であって，紅藻類では果胞子carpospore，四分胞子tetraspore，子囊菌類では子囊胞子ascospore，担子菌類では担子胞子basidiosporeなどとよばれる。コケ植物や維管束植物では単に胞子とよばれる。…

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