A protein called Sir2 may facilitate C. albicans' transition from ovoid yeast to thread-like hypha. C. albicans cells that were missing the Sir2 gene were less likely to form true hyphae in lab ...

Contrary to "conventional" growth by cell division, hyphae grow nearly infinitely (similar to human nerve cells) by extension at their tips. As a result, hyphae may reach a length of several ...

Each individual branched structure is called a hypha (plural: hyphae). Most often, the individual cells in hyphae sit right next to each other in a continuous line (also known as coenocytic hyphae ...

The paper S. Fukuda et al., “Trade-off between plasticity and velocity in mycelial growth,” mBio, 12:e03196–20, 2021. Much of a filamentous fungus’s life involves infiltrating organic tissue: weaving ...

The trap cells reside in fungal filaments, or hyphae, and produce a specialized worm adhesive that would allow those hyphae to stick to the worm once it was caught in the trap.

A team of scientists at the University of Tsukuba, Japan, shed new light on how pathogenic fungi can penetrate tissues by squeezing through tiny gaps between plant and animal cells whereas non ...

A nematode pierces the cell walls of a mushroom’s hyphae to feed on them. Credit Credit... By Markus Künzler. By JoAnna Klein. Jan. 15, 2019.

C. albicans cells that were missing the Sir2 gene were less likely to form true hyphae in lab experiments than cells of the same species that had that gene. “When we got rid of the Sir2 gene, we saw ...

C. albicans cells that were missing the Sir2 gene were less likely to form true hyphae in lab experiments than cells of the same species that had that gene. “When we got rid of the Sir2 gene, we saw ...