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antheridiol, n. Biol.|ænθəˈrɪdɪɒl|
[f. antheridium n. + -ol.]
A steroid hormone produced by female hyphae of the filamentous fungus Achyla bisexualis which stimulates the male hyphae to produce antheridia.
1967McMorris & Barksdale in Nature 15 July 320/2 An account of the isolation of this hormone, which we wish to designate ‘antheridiol’, is given here. 1976Ann. Rev. Microbiol. XXX. 231 The water mold Achyla bisexualis forms a sex hormone that was characterized and named antheridiol. 1984J. W. Deacon Introd. Mod. Mycol. (ed. 2) iv. 64 Antheridiol is produced by ‘female’ branches of Achyla..and it initiates the development of antheridia on ‘male’ or ‘neuter’ hyphal branches. |