ReviewCurrent opinion in microbiology2008
Orchestration of sexual reproduction and virulence by the fungal mating-type locus.
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- Establishment of a congenic strain for the oyster mushroom reveals the structure and evolution of mating-type loci.PLoS genetics · 2026Article
- Host adaptation and genome evolution of the broad host range fungal rust pathogen, Austropuccinia psidii.G3 (Bethesda, Md.) · 2026Article
- Comparative Genomics and Molecular Analysis of Epidermophyton floccosum.Mycopathologia · 2021Article
- Whole-genome resequencing of Trichophyton rubrum provides insights into population differentiation and drug resistance.Mycopathologia · 2020Article
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- Convergent evolution of linked mating-type loci in basidiomycete fungi.PLoS genetics · 2019Article
- Low Amplitude Boom-and-Bust Cycles Define the Septoria Nodorum Blotch Interaction.Frontiers in plant science · 2019Article
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- The influence of the mating type on virulence of Mucor irregularis.Scientific reports · 2017Article
- Advances in Understanding Mating Type Gene Organization in the Mushroom-Forming FungusG3 (Bethesda, Md.) · 2016Article
- Fruiting Body Formation in Volvariella volvacea Can Occur Independently of Its MAT-A-Controlled Bipolar Mating System, Enabling Homothallic and Heterothallic Life Cycles.G3 (Bethesda, Md.) · 2016Article
- The cacao pathogen Moniliophthora roreri (Marasmiaceae) possesses biallelic A and B mating loci but reproduces clonally.Heredity · 2016Article
- Evolution of sexual reproduction: a view from the Fungal Kingdom supports an evolutionary epoch with sex before sexes.Fungal biology reviews · 2015Article
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- Genomic insights into the atopic eczema-associated skin commensal yeast Malassezia sympodialis.mBio · 2013Article
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- Clonality despite sex: the evolution of host-associated sexual neighborhoods in the pathogenic fungus Penicillium marneffei.PLoS pathogens · 2012Article
- Profiling a killer, the development of Cryptococcus neoformans.FEMS microbiology reviews · 2012Review
- Malassezia fungi are specialized to live on skin and associated with dandruff, eczema, and other skin diseases.PLoS pathogens · 2012Review
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Abstract
The mating-type locus (MAT) orchestrates sexual reproduction in fungi. Sexual reproduction is related not only to fitness of an organism, but also correlated with virulence in certain pathogens. In the dandruff-associated fungus Malassesia globosa, although the sexual cycle remains to be discovered, whole genome analysis has led to the hypothesis that mating may occur on host skin. Furthermore, the MAT locus of M. globosa and U. hordei provides evidence that transitions between tetrapolar and bipolar systems have independently occurred. These results, together with studies recapitulating the ancestral tetrapolar mating system in Cryptococcus and the structure of MAT in related smut fungi, have furthered understanding on transitions between different mating systems and the evolution of MAT in the Basidiomycota.
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