Large vs. Small Mucor Spores (IMAGE)

Duke University Medical Center

Large vs. Small Mucor Spores

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Scanning electron microscopic images of giant spores (left) from a (-) mating type strain of the human pathogenic zygomycete Mucor circinelloides and smaller spores (right), from a (+) mating type strain. Images are in the same scale.

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Deborah Springer, Joseph Heitman and Soo Chan Lee, Duke University Medical Center

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