Large-scale introgression shapes the evolution of the mating-type chromosomes of the filamentous ascomycete Neurospora tetrasperma

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Sun, Yu ^a   Corcoran, Pádraic ^a   Menkis, Audrius ^b   Whittle, Carrie A ^a   Andersson, Siv G E ^a   Johannesson, Hanna ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASCOMYCETES; BAYES THEOREM; CHROMOSOME IDENTIFICATION; DNA TRANSFER; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGAL GENOME; GENE LOCATION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; INTROGRESSION; MATING TYPE; MATING TYPE CHROMOSOME; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NEUROSPORA TETRASPERMA; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; SEX CHROMOSOME; SEX DETERMINATION PROCESS;

ALLELES; CHROMOSOMES, FUNGAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FUNGI; GENES, MATING TYPE, FUNGAL; GENOME, FUNGAL; HAPLOIDY; HYBRIDIZATION, GENETIC; NEUROSPORA; PHYLOGENY; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC;

ANIMALIA; EUKARYOTA; NEUROSPORA; NEUROSPORA TETRASPERMA;

EID: 84864580149     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1002820     Document Type: Article

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