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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Medina EM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7213984 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
eLife 20200511
Chytrids are early-diverging fungi that share features with animals that have been lost in most other fungi. They hold promise as a system to study fungal and animal evolution, but we lack genetic tools for hypothesis testing. Here, we generated transgenic lines of the chytrid <i>Spizellomyces punctatus</i>, and used fluorescence microscopy to explore chytrid cell biology and development during its life cycle. We show that the chytrid undergoes multiple rounds of synchronous nuclear division, fo ...[more]