Nuclear Volumes and DNA Content of Three Stages in the Life Cycle of Armillaria bulbosa

Segregation of genotypically diverse progeny from self-fertilized haploids of the Chinese straw mushroom, Volvariella volvacea

“…This is secondary homothallism, because a single progeny spore gives rise to a self-fertile, but heterokaryotic, mycelium. Another 'unusual' example is provided by the diploid species of Armillaria for which there is evidence of haploid nuclei in tramal hyphae and dikaryotic subhymenial cells, indicating a haploidization process during fruit-body development before the normal meiotic cycle (Peabody, Motta & Therrien, 1978 ;Peabody & Peabody, 1986 ;Chiu, 1996).…”