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THE overall frequency of diploid nuclei in a balanced heterocaryon has been estimated by Pontecorvo1 to be of the order of one in 106 or 107. Thus, a colony containing 1 × 109 conidia would include 100–1,000 diploid conidia.
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Pontecorvo, G., Ann. Rev. Microbiol., 10, 393 (1956).
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BARRON, G. Distribution of Nuclei in a Heterocaryon of Penicillium expansum. Nature 200, 282–283 (1963). https://doi.org/10.1038/200282a0
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