Dimorphic

... I mean, or look it up in a biology textbook. As I understand it, it’s a form of asexual reproduction in a species that is (or can be) sexually dimorphic. But I do have problems with your terms and arguments, Anarees. I’m not sure I understand exactly what you are trying to argue for one thing. ...

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... I mean, or look it up in a biology textbook. As I understand it, it’s a form of asexual reproduction in a species that is (or can be) sexually dimorphic. But I do have problems with your terms and arguments, Anarees. I’m not sure I understand exactly what you are trying to argue for one thing. ...

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... fungemia seeding the ocular tissue. Candida spp. are the most common cause of endogenous endophthalmitis, although initial infection with the dimorphic fungi may lead to infection and scarring of the chorioretina . Contact lens wear is associated with keratitis caused by yeasts, filamentous ...

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... and nutritional signals. For example, in response to nitrogen limitation, diploid cells of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae undergo a dimorphic transition to filamentous growth referred to as pseudohyphal differentiation. Yeast filamentous growth is regulated, in part, by two conserved ...

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... involvement of multiple visceral organs; this occurs most commonly in patients with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). Infection with the dimorphic soil fungus S. schenckii usually is acquired through cutaneous inoculation. The initial reddish, necrotic, nodular papule of cutaneous sporotrichosis ...

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