Conserved meiotic machinery in Glomus spp., a putatively ancient asexual fungal lineage

Genome Biology and Evolution

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 950-958

  Halary, Sébastien ^a   Malik, Shehre Banoo ^b   Lildhar, Levannia ^c   Slamovits, Claudio H ^b   Hijri, Mohamed ^a   Corradi, Nicolas ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Ancient asexuals; Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi; Comparative genomics; Fungi; Genome evolution; Meiosis

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; ARBUSCULAR; ASCOMYCOTA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BASIDIOMYCOTA; CHYTRIDIOMYCOTA; EMBRYOPHYTA; FUNGI; FUNGI IMPERFECTI; GLOMUS; GLOMUS CLARUM; GLOMUS DIAPHANUM; HYDRA; MONOSIGA;

FUNGAL PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; CHOANOFLAGELLATE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETICS; GLOMEROMYCOTA; MEIOSIS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOUSE; MYCORRHIZA; PHYLOGENY;

ANIMALS; CHOANOFLAGELLATA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GLOMEROMYCOTA; MEIOSIS; MICE; MYCORRHIZAE; PHYLOGENY; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; REPRODUCTION, ASEXUAL;

EID: 80755156801     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17596653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evr089     Document Type: Article

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