Ascomycota

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General Lifecycle

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Ecology

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Implications for Humans

Ascomycota contains important edible mushrooms (especially in the Morchella genus), fermentation fungi, ecological supporting species, and mycotoxin producting species.

Classes and Orders

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Gallery

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Aspergillus nidulans wild-type phenotype growing on a Petri dish
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Linear arrangement of ascospores in the asci of the fungus Sordaria macrospora
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Sources

Lutzoni, F., F. Kauff, C. J. Cox, D. McLaughlin, G. Celio, B. Dentinger, M. Padamsee, D. Hibbett, T. Y. James, E. Baloch, M. Grube, V. Reeb, V. Hofstetter, C. Schoch, A. E. Arnold, J. Miadlikowska, J. Spatafora, D. Johnson, S. Hambleton, M. Crockett, R. Shoemaker, G.-H. Sung, R. Lücking, T. Lumbsch, K. O?Donnell, M. Binder, P. Diederich, D. Ertz, C. Gueidan, K. Hansen, R. C. Harris, K. Hosaka, Y.-W. Lim, B. Matheny, H. Nishida, D. Pfister, J. Rogers, A. Rossman, I. Schmitt, H. Sipman, J. Stone, J. Sugiyama, R. Yahr, and R. Vilgalys. 2004. Assembling the fungal tree of life: progress, classification, and evolution of subcellular traits. American Journal of Botany 91: 1446-1480.

Taylor, John W., Joey Spatafora, and Mary Berbee. 2006. Ascomycota. Sac Fungi. Version 09 October 2006 (under construction). http://tolweb.org/Ascomycota/20521/2006.10.09 in The Tree of Life Web Project, http://tolweb.org/