Autospore

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An autospore is a form of spores that is used for asexual reproduction and occurs in various groups of algae ( e.g. Ochrophyta , Chlorophyta , Chrysophyceae , Chlorococcales ). Typical representatives come from the genera Chlorella and Oocystis .

Car spores are thin-walled, flagelless and immobile. They already have the typical appearance of their parent cells , from which they emerge through cell division and are released after their cell wall is torn . In contrast to the aplanospore , which is also not scourged , they lack the ability to transform into a zoospore .

literature

  • OP Sharma: Textbook of Algae . Tata McGraw-Hill Publishing Company Ltd., New Delhi, 1986, ISBN 0-07-451928-X . P. 12
  • Laura Barsanti, Paolo Gualtieri: Algae. Anatomy, Biochemistry and Biotechnology . CRC Press, London / New York, 2nd edition, 2010, ISBN 978-1-4398-6732-7 , p. 18
  • Herder-Lexicon of Biology, Spectrum Academ. Verlag, 1994, Vol. 1, ISBN 3-86025-156-2 , p. 325