(1) The asexual phase in the life cycle of this fungus involves the formation of multicellular structures called conidiophores that produce chains of uninucleate spores called conidia.(2) One nucleus divides in the clamp and the other in the hypha just beneath the clamp, which results in the formation of a binucleate tip cell and uninucleate clamp and subterminal cells.(3) This process terminates in the production of asexual spores, the uninucleate conidia.(4) Only about 15% of viable microspores stayed at the haploid uninucleate or binucleate stages.(5) The hyphae lay down double septa and, following cell separation, produce single uninucleate yeast cells that divide by fission and disseminate throughout the body.
