bioRxiv, 2021 Mating type (MAT) loci are the most important and significant regulators of sexual reproduction and development in ascomycetous fungi. Usually, they encode two transcription factors (TFs), named MAT1-1-1 or MAT1-2-1. Mating-type strains carry only one of
Barbara Ramšak, U. Kück, E. Hofmann
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The mating-type chromosome in the filamentous ascomycete Neurospora tetrasperma represents a model for early evolution of sex chromosomes. [PDF]
PLoS Genetics, 2008 We combined gene divergence data, classical genetics, and phylogenetics to study the evolution of the mating-type chromosome in the filamentous ascomycete Neurospora tetrasperma.
Audrius Menkis +3 more
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Autophagy Regulates Fungal Virulence and Sexual Reproduction in Cryptococcus neoformans
Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology, 2020 Autophagy (macroautophagy) is an evolutionarily conserved degradation pathway involved in bulk degradation of cytoplasmic organelles, old protein, and other macromolecules and nutrient recycling during starvation.
Su-Ting Jiang +10 more
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Virulence attributes and hyphal growth of C. neoformans are quantitative traits and the MATalpha allele enhances filamentation. [PDF]
PLoS Genetics, 2006 Cryptococcus neoformans is a fungal human pathogen with a bipolar mating system. It undergoes a dimorphic transition from a unicellular yeast to hyphal filamentous growth during mating and monokaryotic fruiting. The traditional sexual cycle that leads to
Xiaorong Lin +3 more
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Allelic exchange of pheromones and their receptors reprograms sexual identity in Cryptococcus neoformans. [PDF]
PLoS Genetics, 2010 Cell type specification is a fundamental process that all cells must carry out to ensure appropriate behaviors in response to environmental stimuli.
Brynne C Stanton +4 more
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Novel species of Huntiella from naturally-occurring forest trees in Greece and South Africa [PDF]
MycoKeys, 2020 Huntiella species are wood-infecting, filamentous ascomycetes that occur in fresh wounds on a wide variety of tree species. These fungi are mainly known as saprobes although some have been associated with disease symptoms.
FeiFei Liu +6 more
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Unraveling How Candida albicans Forms Sexual Biofilms. [PDF]
, 2020 Biofilms, structured and densely packed communities of microbial cells attached to surfaces, are considered to be the natural growth state for a vast majority of microorganisms.
Hernday, Aaron D +2 more
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White cells facilitate opposite- and same-sex mating of opaque cells in Candida albicans. [PDF]
PLoS Genetics, 2014 Modes of sexual reproduction in eukaryotic organisms are extremely diverse. The human fungal pathogen Candida albicans undergoes a phenotypic switch from the white to the opaque phase in order to become mating-competent.
Li Tao +6 more
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Unidirectional mating-type switching underpinned by a conserved MAT1 locus architecture.
Fungal Genetics and Biology, 2023 Unidirectional mating-type switching is a form of homothallic reproduction known only in a small number of filamentous ascomycetes. Their ascospores can give rise to either self-sterile isolates that require compatible partners for subsequent sexual ...
P. Markus Wilken +4 more
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Discovery of a modified tetrapolar sexual cycle in Cryptococcus amylolentus and the evolution of MAT in the Cryptococcus species complex. [PDF]
PLoS Genetics, 2012 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 ...
Keisha Findley +7 more
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