Mucor Sexual Spore (IMAGE)

Duke University Medical Center

Mucor Sexual Spore

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This colored photograph is of a sexual spore (also known as a zygospore) of the human pathogenic zygomycete, Mucor circinelloides.

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Valerie Knowlton, NC State University; Joseph Heitman and Soo Chan Lee, Duke University Medical Center

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