Dikarya

Translingual

Etymology

From Ancient Greek δίς (dís, “twice”) + κάρυον (káruon, “nucleus”, literally “kernel”).

Proper noun

Dikarya

Fungi with dikaryotic hyphae, in which cells contain a haploid nucleus from each parent rather than a single haploid or diploid nucleus:
1. A taxonomic subkingdom within the kingdom Fungi.[1]
2. A taxonomic clade within the clade Opisthokonta.

Synonyms

(subkingdom): Neomycota[1]

Hypernyms

(clade): Eukaryota - superkingdom; Unikonta - supergroup; Opisthokonta - clade; Fungi - kingdom
(subkingdom): Eukaryota - superkingdom; Fungi - kingdom[1]

Hyponyms

(clade and subkingdom): Ascomycota, Basidiomycota - subphyla[1]

Coordinate terms

(subkingdom in Fungi): Eomycota[1]

References

Dikarya on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Dikarya on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Dikarya at Encyclopedia of Life
Dikarya at National Center for Biotechnology Information
Dikarya at the Tree of Life Web Project

Ruggiero MA, Gordon DP, Orrell TM, Bailly N, Bourgoin T, Brusca RC, et al. (2015) A Higher Level Classification of All Living Organisms. PLoS ONE 10(4): e0119248. PMID 25923521, doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0119248

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