ArticleFungal biology reviews2011
Sex and speciation: the paradox that non-recombining DNA promotes recombination.
Article in Fungal biology reviews, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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- Comparative Genomics Reveals Evolutionary Traits, Mating Strategies, and Pathogenicity-Related Genes Variation ofFrontiers in microbiology · 2022Article
- Unconventional Recombination in the Mating Type Locus of Heterothallic Apple Canker PathogenG3 (Bethesda, Md.) · 2017Article
- Characterization of the reproductive mode and life cycle of the whitish truffle T. borchii.Mycorrhiza · 2016Article
- Contrasted patterns in mating-type chromosomes in fungi: hotspots versus coldspots of recombination.Fungal biology reviews · 2015Article
- Sex-determination system in the diploid yeast Zygosaccharomyces sapae.G3 (Bethesda, Md.) · 2014Article
- Unequal recombination and evolution of the mating-type (MAT) loci in the pathogenic fungus Grosmannia clavigera and relatives.G3 (Bethesda, Md.) · 2013Article
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- Gene conversion occurs within the mating-type locus of Cryptococcus neoformans during sexual reproduction.PLoS genetics · 2012Article
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Abstract
The benefits of sexual reproduction that outweigh its costs have long puzzled biologists. Increased genetic diversity generated by new allelic combinations, as enhanced by recombination during meiosis, is considered to be a primary benefit of sex. Sex-determining systems have evolved independently on numerous occasions. One of the most familiar is the use of sex chromosomes in vertebrates. Other eukaryotic groups also use sex chromosomes or smaller sex-determining regions within their chromosomes, such as the mating type loci in the fungi. In these organisms, sexual reproduction and its associated meiotic recombination is controlled by regions of the genome that are themselves blocked in recombination. Non-recombining DNA that is essential for recombination presents a paradox. One hypothesis is that sex-determination requires or leads to highly diverse alleles, establishing this block in recombination. A second hypothesis to account for the common occurrence of these types of sex-determining systems is that they combine mechanisms for recombination suppression and reproductive isolation, thereby promoting the evolution of new species. The fungal kingdom represents the ideal eukaryotic lineage to elucidate the functions of non-recombining regions in sex-determination and speciation.
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