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Science 1 February 1974:
Vol. 183. no. 4123, pp. 434 - 435
DOI: 10.1126/science.183.4123.434
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Mycoplasma-Like Structures in the Aquatic Fungus Aphanomyces astaci

I. Brent Heath 1 and Torgny Unestam 2

1 Department of Biology, York University, Downsview. M3J 1P3, Ontario. Canada
2 Institute of Physiological Botany, University of Uppsala. 751 21. Uppsala. Sweden

The hyphae of a nonzoosporulating strain of Aphanomyces astaci contain numerous structures which most closely resemble published micrographs of certain mycoplasmas. Two normal strains of the same species do not contain these mycoplasma-like bodies.

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