Dudresnaya crassa
13-21: Division of fertilized carpogonium (cp) with trichogyne (t).
13-22: Fusion of carpogonium an dits derivative cell (arrowheads).
13-23: Fusion cells issuing connecting filaments (cf).
13-24: Auxiliary cell filament, auxiliary cell (ac) and adjoining nutritive cells (arrowheads).
13-25: Connecting filament (cf) fused to auxiliary cell (ac).
13-26: Auxiliary cell (ac) bearing gonimoblasts (g).
From: Hommersand, M. H. and S. Fredericq. 1990. Sexual reproduction and cystocarp development, pp. 305-345.
In
Cole, K. M. and R. G. Sheath (Eds.),
Biology of the red algae
, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 517 p.
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