TY - JOUR
T1 - Evidence for maintenance of sex determinants but not of sexual stages in red yeasts, a group of early diverged basidiomycetes
AU - Gonçalves, Paula Maria Theriaga Mendes Bernardo
AU - Sampaio, José Paulo Nunes de Sousa
PY - 2011/1/1
Y1 - 2011/1/1
N2 - The red yeasts are an early diverged group of basidiomycetes comprising sexual and asexual species. Sexuality is based on two compatible mating types and sexual identity is determined by MAT loci that encode homeodomain transcription factors, peptide pheromones and their receptors. The objective of the present study was to investigate the presence and integrity of MAT genes throughout the phylogenetic diversity of red yeasts belonging to the order Sporidiobolales.
AB - The red yeasts are an early diverged group of basidiomycetes comprising sexual and asexual species. Sexuality is based on two compatible mating types and sexual identity is determined by MAT loci that encode homeodomain transcription factors, peptide pheromones and their receptors. The objective of the present study was to investigate the presence and integrity of MAT genes throughout the phylogenetic diversity of red yeasts belonging to the order Sporidiobolales.
U2 - 10.1186/1471-2148-11-249
DO - 10.1186/1471-2148-11-249
M3 - Article
SN - 1471-2148
VL - 11
SP - 249
JO - BMC Evolutionary Biology
JF - BMC Evolutionary Biology
IS - NA
ER -