Mating systems in ascomycetes: a romp in the sac.
Mating systems in ascomycetes: a romp in the sac.
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10.1016/0168-9525(96)81403-x
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1996-02
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M. A. Nelson
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M. A. Nelson
MARY ANNE NELSON"~~ e ascomyvetous fungt choose beOveen sexual and asexual reproduction, it is only when appropriately stressed that most resort to sexual developmem. Many of the proteins l~ own to regulate develoImka~ t~ aMmals (hon~. odomaln preteens, HM64box prefabs) are also central to the control of sexual d~ feremlatton is the ascomycetes. Most ascomycete mating. type l~.~ are struclurally compgex idtomorphs (large regions of nonhomologous DNA), in that they encode multiple products of probable imfependent epolutionary ori~ t~ The products of the mating-type genes are~ he master regulators of sexual development; we are just begimting our seareh for factors involved M the signal transdstcttott pathway downstream from these master regttlator& haploids or diploids (Fig. 2); diploid cells undergo muiosis and form an ascus under appropriate environmental conditions, including starvation for nitrogen and carhon. An ascus forms directly from a single diploid cell, without the involvement of a fruiting I'mdy or any external snppolling tissue. The haploid spores are not forcibly eiected from the ascus, but~ tther released when tile outer wall of the ascus breaks down. Control of nuclear fusion presents a challenge to the filamentous ascomycetes with which the yeasts are not faced. In ascomycc'tous yeasts, the two nuclei of opposite mating type fuse inlmediately after plasmogamy, so that the ability to maintain a distinct nuclear identity is not required. However, after fertilization in the filan'tentous ascomycetes, the two nuclei of opposite mating type coexist in the same cytoplasm, monitoring the