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A mutant fungal fruiting body.
Aspergillus nidulans is a cosmopolitan mold growing with filaments (yellow). During the sexual cycle, two fungal partners form closed fruiting bodies (purple), which are covered by hundreds of globose Hülle cells (brown). In this issue of PLoS Genetics, Bayram et al. show that, in the absence of the regulator LaeA, the number of Hülle cells is drastically reduced and results in the shown small fruiting bodies of only 20% of the normal size. This supports the view that nursing the young fruiting body is a major function of Hülle cells.
Image Credit: Özgür Bayram and Gerhard Braus
Citation: (2010) PLoS Genetics Issue Image | Vol. 6(12) December 2010. PLoS Genet 6(12): ev06.i12. https://doi.org/10.1371/image.pgen.v06.i12
Published: December 23, 2010
Copyright: © 2010 Sarikaya Bayram et al.. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Aspergillus nidulans is a cosmopolitan mold growing with filaments (yellow). During the sexual cycle, two fungal partners form closed fruiting bodies (purple), which are covered by hundreds of globose Hülle cells (brown). In this issue of PLoS Genetics, Bayram et al. show that, in the absence of the regulator LaeA, the number of Hülle cells is drastically reduced and results in the shown small fruiting bodies of only 20% of the normal size. This supports the view that nursing the young fruiting body is a major function of Hülle cells.
Image Credit: Özgür Bayram and Gerhard Braus