| Title: | Fungal Sex: The Mucoromycota |
| Address: | "South Texas Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases (STCEID), Department of Biology, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX 78249. School of BioSciences, University of Melbourne, Parkville 3010 VIC, Australia" |
| DOI: | 10.1128/microbiolspec.FUNK-0041-2017 |
| ISSN/ISBN: | 2165-0497 (Electronic) 2165-0497 (Linking) |
| Abstract: | "Although at the level of resolution of genes and molecules most information about mating in fungi is from a single lineage, the Dikarya, many fundamental discoveries about mating in fungi have been made in the earlier branches of the fungi. These are nonmonophyletic groups that were once classified into the chytrids and zygomycetes. Few species in these lineages offer the potential of genetic tractability, thereby hampering the ability to identify the genes that underlie those fundamental insights. Research performed during the past decade has now established the genes required for mating type determination and pheromone synthesis in some species in the phylum Mucoromycota, especially in the order Mucorales. These findings provide striking parallels with the evolution of mating systems in the Dikarya fungi. Other discoveries in the Mucorales provide the first examples of sex-cell type identity being driven directly by a gene that confers mating type, a trait considered more of relevance to animal sex determination but difficult to investigate in animals. Despite these discoveries, there remains much to be gleaned about mating systems from these fungi" |
| Keywords: | "*Genes, Mating Type, Fungal *Homologous Recombination Mucorales/*genetics/*growth & development Pheromones/metabolism;" |
| Notes: | "MedlineLee, Soo Chan Idnurm, Alexander eng Review 2017/03/24 Microbiol Spectr. 2017 Mar; 5(2). doi: 10.1128/microbiolspec.FUNK-0041-2017" |
