In certain species of diatoms, auxospores are specialised cells that are produced at key stages in their cell cycle or life history. Auxospores typically play a role in growth processes, sexual reproduction or dormancy. Auxospores are involved in re-establishing the normal size in diatoms because successive mitotic cell divisions leads to a decrea...
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(from the article `algae`) ...small diploid cells undergo meiosis, and among pennate (thin, elliptical) diatoms the resulting haploid gametes fuse into a zygote, which grows ...
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A spore in diatom algae that leads to reformation of an enlarged vegetative cell.
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