zoospore

…aplanospores, whereas others produce motile zoospores, which lack true cell walls and bear one or more flagella. The flagella allow zoospores to swim to a favourable environment in which to develop, whereas monospores and aplanospores must rely on passive transport by water currents.

…called aplanospores, while others produce zoospores, which lack true cell walls and bear one or more flagella. These flagella allow zoospores to swim to a favourable environment, whereas monospores and aplanospores have to rely on passive transport by water currents.

…either during the formation of zoospores (asexual reproductive cells) or after meiosis during gamete formation, a massive progressive division occurs. The most unusual of such organisms is the marine alga Acetabularia; many nuclei stay clumped together in one compound nucleus in the rootlike base, which often is as much as…

…free-swimming infectious reproductive cells called zoospores. Once a zoospore has encountered a potential host, it encysts upon the surface of the skin and penetrates one of the host’s epidermal cells. Then the zoospore grows into a mature thallus that ultimately releases 40–100 zoospores over its 4–5-day life cycle. In species…

…either naked and flagellated (zoospores) or walled and nonmotile (aplanospores). The more primitive aquatic and terrestrial fungi tend to produce zoospores. The zoospores of aquatic fungi and funguslike organisms swim in the surrounding water by means of one or two variously located flagella (whiplike organs of locomotion). Zoospores produced…

…of asexual reproductive cells, called zoospores. Zoospores move through the use of one or two whiplike swimming structures known as flagella, and individuals may germinate from these spores. Mature organisms may also reproduce sexually, with the resulting fertilized eggs being converted into nonmobile spores, or oospores, which then also germinate…

…produce many flagellated swarmers, or zoospores. The common planktonic foraminiferan Globigerinoides sacculifer, for example, can produce 30,000 swarmers at one time. Each swarmer is about 5 micrometres (0.005 mm) long. In planktonic species the parent usually loses buoyancy and sinks by shedding spines and withdrawing the complicated pseudopodial network into…