small, curved hyphal outgrowth at a septum forms a looped bridge between two adjacent cells. Formed only in Basidiomycetes.
a special connection which forms at the junction of two adjacent fungal filamentous cells. A clamp connection looks something like the handle on a coffee cup. However, it may be flattened against the wall of the cells or may have a large opening (in this case a keyhole clamp) that allows the migration of nuclei between developing cells.
a connection between two fungal cells
a bridge-like hyphal connection involved in maintaining the dikaryotic condition. There's a great animation of this process at Forest and Shade Tree Pathology. Another explanation, from Prof. George Wong's site at the University of Hawaii (see image): "a. Terminal cell of hypha. Growth only takes place at hyphal tips; b. Hyphal tip elongating. c. Synchronous division of nuclei and the beginning of hyphal branch that will become the clamp connection. One nucleus (b) migrates into the new clamp. d. Septum forms at base of the clamp trapping nucleus b. Nuclei a' and b' migrate to the hyphal tip, while nucleus a migrates away from the tip. e. Septum forms below clamp forming new cell at hyphal tip. Fusion of the clamp to the adjacent cell releases nucleus b to the adjacent cell. Now both the terminal and subterminal are binucleate, each with a compatible pair of nuclei."
A specialized hyphal bridge involved with nuclear division in the Basidiomycetes.
a bridge-like hyphal connection characteristic of the secondary mycelium of many Basidiomycetes.
a recurving outgrowth of a cell that, at cell division, acts as a bridge to allow passage of one of the products of nuclear division into the penultimate cell, thereby assuring maintenance of the dikaryotic condition.
a bridge-like hyphal connection between two adjacent cells, found only in some Basidiomycota.
A type of connection found within a single hyphal strand of a Basidiomycete fungus.
