Production of contiguously arranged chlamydospores in Candida albicans.
Contiguous arrangements of two to three chlamydospores occurred in a clinical isolate of Candida albicans. Time-lapse photography showed that the terminal cell of a cell chain was first transformed into a chlamydospore and such transformation proceeded centripetally to the next cell in the chain. Ultrathin sections revealed that the outermost layer of the three-layered chlamydospore wall was continuous throughout the interconnected spores, with the other layers surrounding each spore separately. Chlamydospore chains were common in this organism.
D002176:Candida albicans / Q000502:physiology* / Q000648:ultrastructure; D006801:Humans; D008854:Microscopy, Electron; D013172:Spores, Fungal / Q000648:ultrastructure; D013997:Time Factors