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Ascomycota

"Ascomycota" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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A phylum of fungi which have cross-walls or septa in the mycelium. The perfect state is characterized by the formation of a saclike cell (ascus) containing ascospores. Most pathogenic fungi with a known perfect state belong to this phylum.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Ascomycota" by people in this website by year, and whether "Ascomycota" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 14 publications over 9 distinct years, with a maximum of 3 publications in 2004 and 2007
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