Dikarya

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Etymology

From Ancient Greek δίς (dís, twice) + κάρυον (káruon, nucleus, literally kernel).

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Dikarya

  1. 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.
    2. A taxonomic clade within the clade Opisthokonta.

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  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 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. PMID 25923521, →DOI