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Dikarya

Dikarya

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Dikarya

  1. Fungi with dikaryotic hyphae, in which cells contain a haploid nucleus from each parent rather than a single haploid or diploid nucleus:
    1. A taxonomic subkingdom within the kingdom Fungi.[1]
    2. A taxonomic clade within the clade Opisthokonta.

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References

  1. Ruggiero MA, Gordon DP, Orrell TM, Bailly N, Bourgoin T, Brusca RC, et al. (2015) A Higher Level Classification of All Living Organisms. PLoS ONE 10(4): e0119248. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0119248. pmid:25923521