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RECENTLY, sexual hormone from the mycelium of mated strains of Mucor mucedo, which causes the production of zygophores in unmated cultures of the same fungus has been isolated1 and characterized2. A close parallel exists between the biological properties of this mycelial hormone and those of the trisporic acids from culture filtrates of mated strains of Blakeslea trispora3–8. While trisporic acids B and C (Fig. 1a and b) have been identified with the sexual factors obtained from culture filtrates of several members of the Mucorales9,10, we have carried out a direct comparison of the Mucor mycelial hormone and authentic trisporic acids from B. trispora.
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AUSTIN, D., BU'LOCK, J. & GOODAY, G. Trisporic Acids: Sexual Hormones from Mucor mucedo and Blakeslea trispora. Nature 223, 1178–1179 (1969). https://doi.org/10.1038/2231178a0
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