Discovery of a modified tetrapolar sexual cycle in Cryptococcus amylolentus and the evolution of MAT in the Cryptococcus species complex.
Sexual reproduction in fungi is governed by a specialized genomic region called the mating-type locus (MAT). The human fungal pathogenic and basidiomycetous yeast Cryptococcus neoformans has evolved a bipolar mating system (a, α) in which the MAT locus is unusually large (>100 kb) and encodes >...
Main Authors: | Keisha Findley, Sheng Sun, James A Fraser, Yen-Ping Hsueh, Anna Floyd Averette, Wenjun Li, Fred S Dietrich, Joseph Heitman |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2012-01-01
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Series: | PLoS Genetics |
Online Access: | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3280970?pdf=render |
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