coenocytic

Examples of coenocytic in the following topics:

• Chytridiomycota: The Chytrids

  • Most chytrids are unicellular; a few form multicellular organisms and hyphae, which have no septa between cells (coenocytic).

• Zygomycota: The Conjugated Fungi

  • Zygomycetes have a thallus of coenocytic hyphae in which the nuclei are haploid when the organism is in the vegetative stage.

• Glomeromycota

  • They have coenocytic hyphae and reproduce asexually, producing glomerospores.

• Fungi Cell Structure and Function

  • Instead, they are formed by large cells containing many nuclei, an arrangement described as coenocytic hyphae ( b).
  • Fungal hyphae may be (a) septated or (b) coenocytic (coeno- = "common"; -cytic = "cell") with many nuclei present in a single hypha.