The phrase "asexual state" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing biology, sexuality, or psychological states where a lack of sexual attraction or activity is being described.
Example: "The organism can enter an asexual state during periods of environmental stress, allowing it to reproduce without a mate."
Alternatives: "non-sexual condition" or "aseptic phase".
This leads to the interesting prediction that the process of adaptive evolution toward asexuality will slowly grind to a halt and will not reach the pure asexual state.
Xanthophyllomces dendrorhous (in asexual state named as Phaffia rhodozyma) is a fungus which produces astaxanthin, a high value carotenoid used in aquafarming.
This species of Scedosporium, the anamorph (asexual state) of Pseudallescheria boydii, is a ubiquitous filamentous fungus, found in soil, sewage, and polluted water [1].
In 2009, Japanese researchers reported discovering a form of the fungus missing the sexual stage of its life cycle; this asexual state was named Kumanasamuha geaster.
Fungi known only in an asexual state are generally assumed to have a corresponding sexual state.
This may either indicate a hitherto unseen sexual cycle in Encephalitozoon or be representative of a secondarily asexual state, given that meiosis also occurs in some diplokaryotic microsporidia [67].
The combined analyses of morphology and sequence data, including culture characteristics, features of asexual states, and phylogeny inferred from partial sequences of translation elongation factor 1-α and the second largest RNA polymerase subunit encoding genes were carried out.
The conventional categories of these fungi based on asexual states are not supported by phylogenetic analysis of SSU rDNA sequences.
Fungi have different morphologies that accompany sexual and asexual reproduction and sexual states may be separated from asexual states by time, substrate, habitat, climate or other factors.
Specifically, there is an increasing interest in the asexual states of Epichloë species, Neotyphodium fungi (Clay and Schardl 2002).
The taxonomy of these three genera has caused confusion for many mycologists as their sexual and asexual states have undergone several nomenclatural changes.
