Budding: A new stage in the development of Chytridiopsis typographi (Zygomycetes: Microsporidia)

Chytridiopsis typographi Weiser, 1954, the microsporidian pathogen of the spruce bark beetle, Ips typographus L. (Coleoptera: Scolytidae), has an early developmental period with plurinucleate mother cells, each of which produces a single bud. The globular bud is connected with the mother cell by a collar and the cellular constituents are pushed to the distant end of the bud. Both the mother cell and the bud continue to develop; the bud then separates from the mother cell and grows to produce a cell of the same type. Both cells then continue sporogonial development and produce sporophorous vesicles with 16–32 spores. The process of a single mother cell producing a single bud that grows to an identical stage is new in the development of C. typographi and has no analogy in other Microsporidia.