At crayfish boils or other meals where the entire body of the crayfish is presented, other portions, such as the claw meat, may be eaten. Claws of larger boiled specimens are often pulled apart to access the meat inside.
An ascospore is a spore contained in an ascus or that was produced inside an ascus. This kind of spore is specific to fungi classified as ascomycetes (Ascomycota). Typically, a single ascus will contain eight ascospores. The eight spores are produced by meiosis followed by a mitotic division. Two meiotic divisions turn the original diploid zygote nucleus into four haploid ones.
The Ascomycetes are fungi that produce their spores in little tubes called asci (the singular is ascus). The tubes are located on the spore-bearing surface of the mushroom. Thousands and thousands of fungi belong to the Ascomycetes, but most of them are not mushrooms as we mushroom hunters think of them.