Sentences with phrase «mating type cells»
C. albicans is known to undergo a parasexual cycle involving heterothallic fusion of α and a mating type cells followed by stochastic, concerted loss of chromosomes [44].
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When Candida albicans cells reproduce by mating, they have two sex types, «a» and «alpha».
Richard Bennett of Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, and his colleagues mixed the two types and saw matings between same - sex cells, but only a few (Nature, DOI: 10.1038 / nature08252).
These resultant haploid cells can fuse with other haploid cells of the opposite sex or mating type during fertilization to create a new diploid cell, or zygote.
But the vast majority of the cells found in nature are of only one mating type.
It describes how a population evolves from different mating types producing same - sized sex cells (or gametes) to mating types producing different - sized gametes, such as where there are distinct males and females.
«Sexual reproduction does not require males and females, all it requires is the fusion of sex cells from two different mating types.»
When deprived of nitrogen, haploid cells of opposite mating types can fuse to become a diploid zygospore which forms a hard outer wall that protects it from adverse environmental conditions.
Sexual conjugation occurs when cells starved for at least 2 hrs in a nutrient - depleted media encounter a cell of complementary mating type.
When a male germ - line chimera is mated to a female germ - line chimera they will have three types of offspring — pure band - tailed pigeons, band - tail - passenger pigeon hybrids, and when an engineered sperm meets an engineered egg cell the result will be a fully formed de-extinct passenger pigeon.