Conidiospores occur in the sexual stage and are produced on conidiophores.
The teleomorph or sexual reproductive stage, of F. oxysporum is unknown.
A cellular slime mold does not usually have a sexual stage in its life cycle.
Now that it is known to have a sexual stage the genus name Lepteutypa should take precedence.
There is no known sexual stage of the life cycle for P. philippinensis.
Therefore, there is not any evidence of a sexual stage in this fungus thus far.
After a minimum of one week, the sexual stage begins with the development of male and female gametocytes.
A few of the merozoites, however, progress to a sexual stage.
The sexual stages are usually round or oval or rarely elongated.
The last phase of the life cycle that has the potential to be targeted by a vaccine is the "sexual stage".