mBio (Feb 2021)

Multiple Pathways to Homothallism in Closely Related Yeast Lineages in the Basidiomycota

  • Alexandra Cabrita,
  • Márcia David-Palma,
  • Patrícia H. Brito,
  • Joseph Heitman,
  • Marco A. Coelho,
  • Paula Gonçalves

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1128/mBio.03130-20
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1

Abstract

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Sexual reproduction is important for the biology of eukaryotes because it strongly impacts the dynamics of genetic variation. In fungi, although sexual reproduction is usually associated with the fusion between cells belonging to different individuals (heterothallism), sometimes a single individual is capable of completing the sexual cycle alone (homothallism).