Fig. 5: Current model of the life cycle of Amanita phalloides, illustrating a bisexual reproductive cycle (left) and a unisexual reproductive cycle (right). | Nature Communications

Fig. 5: Current model of the life cycle of Amanita phalloides, illustrating a bisexual reproductive cycle (left) and a unisexual reproductive cycle (right).

From: Invasive Californian death caps develop mushrooms unisexually and bisexually

Fig. 5: Current model of the life cycle of Amanita phalloides, illustrating a bisexual reproductive cycle (left) and a unisexual reproductive cycle (right).The alternative text for this image may have been generated using AI.

M marks meiosis. Following meiosis, the single nucleus of each spore undergoes a mitotic division and so each spore carries two (genetically identical) nuclei.

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