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  • The process in which an akinete, a thick-walled (encysted) dormant cell derived from the enlargement of a vegetative cell, is formed. Akinetes typically have granular cytoplasm, are more resistant to environmental extremes than vegetative cells, and are characteristic of several groups of Cyanobacteria. [GOC:ds, GOC:mah, http://www.msu.edu/course/bot/423/algalglossary.htm#Reproductive, PMID:11948167]
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