Dikarya

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Proper noun

Dikarya

Fungi with dikaryotic hyphae, in which cells contain a haploid nucleus from each parent rather than a single haploid or diploid nucleus:
1. A taxonomic subkingdom within the kingdom Fungi.^[1]
2. A taxonomic clade within the clade Opisthokonta.

Synonyms

(subkingdom): Neomycota^[1]

Hypernyms

(clade): Eukaryota - superkingdom; Unikonta - supergroup; Opisthokonta - clade; Fungi - kingdom
(subkingdom): Eukaryota - superkingdom; Fungi - kingdom^[1]

Hyponyms

(clade and subkingdom): Ascomycota, Basidiomycota - subphyla^[1]

Coordinate terms

(subkingdom in Fungi): Eomycota^[1]

References

Dikarya on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Dikarya on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Dikarya at Encyclopedia of Life
Dikarya at National Center for Biotechnology Information

1 2 3 4 5 Ruggiero MA, Gordon DP, Orrell TM, Bailly N, Bourgoin T, Brusca RC, et al. (2015) A Higher Level Classification of All Living Organisms. PLoS ONE 10(4): e0119248. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0119248. pmid:25923521

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