Genetically Engineered Transvestites Reveal Novel Mating Genes in Budding Yeast [PDF]
, 2014 Haploid budding yeast has two mating types, defined by the alleles of the MAT locus, MATa and MATα. Two haploid cells of opposite mating types mate by signaling to each other using reciprocal pheromones and receptors, polarizing and growing towards each ...
Huberman, Lori Bromer, Murray, Andrew W.
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Microbiology Spectrum, 2022 Transposable elements (TEs) play a pivotal role in shaping diversity in eukaryotic genomes. The covered smut pathogen on barley, Ustilago hordei, encountered a recent genome expansion. Using long reads, we assembled genomes of 6 U.
J. R. L. Depotter +6 more
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mBio, 2016 It has been proposed that the ancestral fungus was mating competent and homothallic. However, many mating-competent fungi were initially classified as asexual because their mating capacity was hidden behind layers of regulation.
Yuan Sun +6 more
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Structure, function, and phylogeny of the mating locus in the Rhizopus oryzae complex. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2010 The Rhizopus oryzae species complex is a group of zygomycete fungi that are common, cosmopolitan saprotrophs. Some strains are used beneficially for production of Asian fermented foods but they can also act as opportunistic human pathogens.
Andrii P Gryganskyi +8 more
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High variability in a mating type linked region in the dry rot fungus Serpula lacrymans caused by frequency-dependent selection? [PDF]
, 2010 Background The mating type loci that govern the mating process in fungi are thought to be influenced by negative frequency-dependent selection due to rare allele advantage.
Ingeborg Engh +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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Biologically active Phytophthora mating hormone prepared by catalytic asymmetric total synthesis [PDF]
, 2008 A Phytophthora mating hormone with an array of 1,5-stereogenic centers has been synthesized by using our recently developed methodology of catalytic enantioselective conjugate addition of Grignard reagents. We applied this methodology in a diastereo- and
A. J. Minnaard +23 more
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Evolution of asexual and sexual reproduction in the aspergilli [PDF]
, 2018 Aspergillus nidulans has long-been used as a model organism to gain insights into the genetic basis of asexual and sexual developmental processes both in other members of the genus Aspergillus, and filamentous fungi in general.
Chen, W. +10 more
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Multiple pathways of plasmid DNA transfer in Helicobacter pylori [PDF]
, 2012 Many Helicobacter pylori (Hp) strains carry cryptic plasmids of different size and gene content, the function of which is not well understood. A subgroup of these plasmids (e.g.
Benghezal, Mohammed +5 more
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Regulating repression : roles for the Sir4 N-terminus in linker DNA protection and stabilization of epigenetic states [PDF]
, 2012 The Gasser laboratory is supported by the Novartis Research Foundation and the EU training network Nucleosome 4D. SK was supported by an EMBO long-term fellowship, a Schrodinger fellowship from the FWF, and the Swiss SystemsX.ch initiative/C-CINA; HCF by
Ferreira, Helder C. +8 more
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