a diatom cell before its silicaceous cell wall is formed
Examples of 'auxospore' in a sentence
auxospore
Auxospore development and wall structure was similar in all three species and demonstrated several characters also reported from "core" araphids.
Irena Kaczmarska, Benjamin S. Gray, James M. Ehrman, Mary Thaler 2017, 'Sexual reproduction in plagiogrammacean diatoms: First insights into the early pennates',PLOS ONE10.1371/journal.pone.0181413. Retrieved from PLOS CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)