Autospore

[4] Some study on autospores and algae in general include looking into its use for biofuel, animal feed, food supplements, nutraceuticals, and pharmaceuticals.

[2] Autospores are formed as a result of fission in the mitotic phase of cell division of green algae.

"[10] Chlorella vulgaris produces between 2 and 32 autospores which burst out of the mother cell and use its debris as food in a process called autosporulation as studied and depicted by Ru in Chlorella vulgaris: a perspective on its potential for combining high biomass with high value bioproducts.

[5] The particular path a cell uses to produce autospores may vary not only by species, but also by environmental factors such as toxins or metals, such as Pseudokirchneriella subcapitata selecting between eight and two-autospore production based on concentration of potassium dichromate (K2Cr2O7) or 3,5-dichlorophenol (3,5-DCP) as studied by Yamagishi in Cell reproductive patterns in the green alga Pseudokirchneriella subcapitata (=Selenastrum capricornutum) and their variations under exposure to the typical toxicants potassium dichromate and 3,5-DCP.

Sexual methods of algal reproduction include isogamy, anisogamy, oogamy, autogamy, and hologamy.

Autospores are one of three primary kinds of spores which algae use to reproduce asexually, along with zoospores and aplanospores.

Algae can also asexually reproduce through less commonly known hypnospores, akinetes, heterocysts, endospores, exospores, androspores, neutral spores, carpospores, tetraspores, and palmella stage.

Reproduction of Radiococcus and Tetracoccus by forming 4 autospores within a single cell
Trypanochloris can form more than 128 autospores from a single cell. [ 6 ]
Differential interference contrast microscopy image of Pseudokirchneriella subcapitata cells dividing in two, four, and eight-autospore formation. [ 7 ]