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Stained cells of Saccharomyces rosei prepared from 4 to 10-day-old cultures were studied under the light microscope. Mitotic and meiotic divisions involving a ring-like structure as well as preceding and subsequent stages were observed. Cells presenting supernumerary mitoses in a varying number were frequent. These mitoses, having terminated their multiplication activity, suspended the process shortly before its conclusion and, in a development which was identical at all, assumed a curious arrangement forming a mitoses-ring. Meiosis-buds were detected. These especial buds, where karyogamy and meiosis took place, resulted from the development of the mitoses-ring, whose mitoses upon resuming their activity moved toward the cell wall giving rise to the appearance of these appendices. Each one of these buds received the corresponding pair of daughter nuclei, diploidization occurring subsequently. Meiosis was usually processed in a single “bud” (effective-meiosis-bud) and all four meiotic nuclei migrated to the mother cell, and gave rise to a tetra-nucleate spore or binucleate spores if two were formed.
Other modalities of sporulation were observed. These may result either from the association of two cells, in which one assumed the function of meiosis-bud (false-meiosis-bud), or from a cell association in which this function was performed for several linearly arranged cells forming a protuberance.
Conjugation between mother cell and an attached bud, or between independent cells, was not observed.
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Ferreira, J.D. Nuclear behaviour during ascus formation in Saccharomyces rosei (Guilliermond) Lodder et Kreger-van Rij. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 48, 1–24 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00399483
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