Sex in Fungi

Annual Review of Genetics

Volumn 45, Issue , 2011, Pages 405-430

  Ni, Min ^a   Feretzaki, Marianna ^a   Sun, Sheng ^a   Wang, Xuying ^a   Heitman, Joseph ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Aneuploidy; Fungal sex chromosomes; Mating type (MAT); Mitochondrial inheritance; RNAi; Sexual development

Indexed keywords

PHEROMONE;

AGROCYBE AEGERITA; ALLOMYCES; ANEUPLOIDY; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; BASIDIOSPORE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CELL FUSION; COCHLIOBOLUS; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; DNA METHYLATION; EVOLUTION; EXTRACHROMOSOMAL INHERITANCE; FUNGUS HYPHAE; GAMETE; KLUYVEROMYCES LACTIS; MATING TYPE; MEIOSIS; NEOSARTORYA; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; PHYCOMYCES BLAKESLEEANUS; PODOSPORA ANSERINA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOGENE; REPRODUCTION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SCHIZOPHYLLUM COMMUNE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; SEX CHROMOSOME; SORDARIALES; SPORIDIOBOLALES; SPOROGENESIS; TRANSPOSON; USTILAGO MAYDIS; YEAST; ZYGOTE;

ANEUPLOIDY; CHROMOSOMES, FUNGAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FUNGI; GENES, MATING TYPE, FUNGAL; GENETIC LOCI; GERM CELLS; INHERITANCE PATTERNS; MITOCHONDRIA; MYCELIUM; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; REPRODUCTION; SEX CHROMOSOMES; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPORES, FUNGAL;

ANIMALIA; CILIOPHORA; EUKARYOTA; FUNGI;

EID: 80755168314     PISSN: 00664197     EISSN: 15452948     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-genet-110410-132536     Document Type: Article

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