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Dikarya
Dikarya
Translingual
Proper noun
Dikarya
- Fungi with dikaryotic hyphae, in which cells contain a haploid nucleus from each parent rather than a single haploid or diploid nucleus:
- A taxonomic subkingdom within the kingdom Fungi.[1]
- A taxonomic clade within the clade Opisthokonta.
Hypernyms
- (clade): Eukaryota - superkingdom; Unikonta - supergroup; Opisthokonta - clade; Fungi - kingdom
- (subkingdom): Eukaryota - superkingdom; Fungi - kingdom
Hyponyms
- (clade and subkingdom): Ascomycota, Basidiomycota - subphyla
References
- ↑ 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