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basidiomycete
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basidiomycete /ba·sid·io·my·cete/ (-o-mi´sēt) an individual fungus of the Basidiomycotina.


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Mushrooming mushrooms David Hibbett, associate professor of biology at Clark University, studies evolutionary biology and ecology of fungi, principally Basidiomycota (mushroom-forming fungi).
In addition, spores of Curvularia and the Basidiomycota (including rusts, smuts, and basidiospores) were identified by microscopy.
Children who were exposed to higher levels of spores from Basidiomycota (club fungi) and Penicillium/Aspergillus (whose spores are very similar) were more likely to develop multiple allergies, says coauthor Tiina Reponen, a professor in the University of Cincinnati Department of Environmental Health.
 
 
 
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