Phycomyces
"Phycomyces" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A genus of zygomycetous fungi in the family Mucoraceae, order MUCORALES, forming mycelia having a metallic sheen. It has been used for research on phototropism.
| Descriptor ID |
D010800
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| MeSH Number(s) |
B01.300.300.500.750
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Ortega JKE, Mohan RP, Munoz CM, Sridhar SL, Vernerey FJ. Helical growth during the phototropic response, avoidance response, and in stiff mutants of Phycomyces blakesleeanus. Sci Rep. 2021 02 11; 11(1):3653.
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Lalitha Sridhar S, Ortega JKE, Vernerey FJ. A Statistical Model of Expansive Growth in Plant and Fungal Cells: The Case of Phycomyces. Biophys J. 2018 Dec 18; 115(12):2428-2442.