Sexual reproduction in " Rhizopus stolonifer ", as in other zygomycetes, occurs when haploid hyphae of different mating types are in close proximity to each other.
12.
In glomeromycetes ( formerly zygomycetes ), haploid hyphae of two individuals fuse, forming a gametangium, a specialized cell structure that becomes a fertile gamete-producing cell.
13.
Prior to Bensaude's work, heterothallism had already been described in lower fungi, the Zygomycetes, by Albert Francis Blakeslee, published in Science ( 1904 ).
14.
The class Phycomycetes has been abolished and in its place exists Zygomycetes, Chytridiomycetes, Plasmodiophoromycetes, Hyphochytridiomycetes, Trichomycetes ( including Harpellales, Asellariales, Eccrinales and Amoebidiales ) and Oomycetes.
15.
Some zygomycetes disperse their spores in a more precise manner than simply allowing them to drift aimlessly on air currents . " Pilobolus ", a fungus which grows on animal dung, bends its sporangiophores towards light with the help of a light sensitive pigment ( beta-carotene ) and then " fires " them with an explosive squirt of high-pressure cytoplasm.
