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Evolution of uni- and bifactorial sexual compatibility systems in fungi.
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- Tracing the evolution and genomic dynamics of mating-type loci inbioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Repeated loss of function at HD mating-type genes and of recombination in anther-smut fungi.Nature communications · 2025Article
- A high-resolution haplotype collection uncovers somatic hybridization, recombination and intercontinental movement in oat crown rust.PLoS genetics · 2024Article
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- Uncovering the history of recombination and population structure in western Canadian stripe rust populations through mating type alleles.BMC biology · 2023Article
- Emergence of the fungal immune system.iScience · 2023Review
- Genomic determination of breeding systems and trans-specific evolution of HD MAT genes in suilloid fungi.Genetics · 2023Article
- Stepwise recombination suppression around the mating-type locus in an ascomycete fungus with self-fertile spores.PLoS genetics · 2023Article
- Determination and Analysis of Hyper-VariableMycobiology · 2023Article
- Fungi-on-a-Chip: microfluidic platforms for single-cell studies on fungi.FEMS microbiology reviews · 2022Review
- Tempo of Degeneration Across Independently Evolved Nonrecombining Regions.Molecular biology and evolution · 2022Article
- Evolutionary Morphogenesis of Sexual Fruiting Bodies in Basidiomycota: Toward a New Evo-Devo Synthesis.Microbiology and molecular biology reviews : MMBR · 2022Review
- Genetic structure and evolutionary diversity of mating-type (MAT) loci in Hypsizygus marmoreus.IMA fungus · 2021Article
- Mating Systems in True Morels (Microbiology and molecular biology reviews : MMBR · 2021Review
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- Recombination suppression and evolutionary strata around mating-type loci in fungi: documenting patterns and understanding evolutionary and mechanistic causes.The New phytologist · 2021Review
- Search for MHC/TCR-Like Systems in Living Organisms.Frontiers in immunology · 2021Article
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Abstract
Mating systems, that is, whether organisms give rise to progeny by selfing, inbreeding or outcrossing, strongly affect important ecological and evolutionary processes. Large variations in mating systems exist in fungi, allowing the study of their origin and consequences. In fungi, sexual incompatibility is determined by molecular recognition mechanisms, controlled by a single mating-type locus in most unifactorial fungi. In Basidiomycete fungi, however, which include rusts, smuts and mushrooms, a system has evolved in which incompatibility is controlled by two unlinked loci. This bifactorial system probably evolved from a unifactorial system. Multiple independent transitions back to a unifactorial system occurred. It is still unclear what force drove evolution and maintenance of these contrasting inheritance patterns that determine mating compatibility. Here, we give an overview of the evolutionary factors that might have driven the evolution of bifactoriality from a unifactorial system and the transitions back to unifactoriality. Bifactoriality most likely evolved for selfing avoidance. Subsequently, multiallelism at mating-type loci evolved through negative frequency-dependent selection by increasing the chance to find a compatible mate. Unifactoriality then evolved back in some species, possibly because either selfing was favoured or for increasing the chance to find a compatible mate in species with few alleles. Owing to the existence of closely related unifactorial and bifactorial species and the increasing knowledge of the genetic systems of the different mechanisms, Basidiomycetes provide an excellent model for studying the different forces that shape breeding systems.
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