Unidirectional evolutionary transitions in fungal mating systems and the role of transposable elements

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 29, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 3215-3226

  Gioti, Anastasia ^a   Mushegian, Alexandra A ^a   Strandberg, Rebecka ^a   Stajich, Jason E ^b   Johannesson, Hanna ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

evolutionary transition; mating system; mating type locus; transposable element; unequal crossover

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FUNGAL GENE; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC LINKAGE; HAPLOIDY; MATING; NEUROSPORA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RETROPOSON; SYNTENY; TRANSPOSON;

CONSERVED SEQUENCE; CROSSING OVER, GENETIC; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, INTERGENIC; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, MATING TYPE, FUNGAL; GENETIC LOCI; MODELS, GENETIC; NEUROSPORA; RETROELEMENTS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

ASCOMYCOTA; NEUROSPORA;

EID: 84866904057     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/mss132     Document Type: Article

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