Nature Communications (May 2018)

Multiple convergent supergene evolution events in mating-type chromosomes

  • Sara Branco,
  • Fantin Carpentier,
  • Ricardo C. Rodríguez de la Vega,
  • Hélène Badouin,
  • Alodie Snirc,
  • Stéphanie Le Prieur,
  • Marco A. Coelho,
  • Damien M. de Vienne,
  • Fanny E. Hartmann,
  • Dominik Begerow,
  • Michael E. Hood,
  • Tatiana Giraud

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-04380-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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Supergenes result from beneficial linkage and recombination suppression between two or more genes. Giraud and colleagues use whole genome sequencing data to show convergent evolution of supergenes on mating-type chromosomes in multiple closely-related fungal lineages.