The evolutionary trajectory of the mating-type (mat) genes in Neurosporarelates to reproductive behavior of taxa |
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Authors: | Lotta Wik Magnus Karlsson Hanna Johannesson |
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Affiliation: | 1.Department of Biomedical Sciences and Veterinary Public Health,Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences,Uppsala,Sweden;2.Department of Forest Mycology and Pathology,Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences,Uppsala,Sweden;3.Department of Evolutionary Biology,Uppsala University,Uppsala,Sweden |
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Abstract: | Background Comparative sequencing studies among a wide range of taxonomic groups, including fungi, have led to the discovery that reproductive genes evolve more rapidly than other genes. However, for fungal reproductive genes the question has remained whether the rapid evolution is a result of stochastic or deterministic processes. The mating-type (mat) genes constitute the master regulators of sexual reproduction in filamentous ascomycetes and here we present a study of the molecular evolution of the four mat -genes (mat a-1, mat A-1, mat A-2 and mat A-3) of 20 Neurospora taxa. |
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