Blastoconidium
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A blastoconidium (plural blastoconidia) is an asexual holoblastic conidia formed through the blowing out or budding process of a yeast cell, which is a type of asexual reproduction that results in a bud arising from a parent cell.[1][2] The production of a blastoconidium can occur along a true hyphae, pseudohyphae, or a singular yeast cell.[3] The word "conidia" comes from the Greek word konis and eidos, konis meaning dust and eidos meaning like. The term "bud" comes from the Greek word blastos, which means bud. [4] Yeasts such as Candida albicans and Cryptococcus neoformans produce these budded cells known as blastoconidia.[5][6]
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