Friday, November 23, 2012

Fungal Word Friday: Clamp Connection



A cross structure formed by hyphal cells that helps ensure each cell or or septately segmented portion of hypha receives a differeing set of nuclei.

A picture with several Clamp Connections visible.

 For further information the following diagram helps show us the formation process of a clamp connection.



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Formation of a Clamp Connection

Formation Diagram credit: http://www.botany.hawaii.edu/faculty/wong/Bot201/Basidiomycota/Clamp_connection_formation.html

Photo Cred:By Alan Rockefeller (Own work) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons


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