Contrasting codon usage patterns and purifying selection at the mating locus in putatively asexual alternaria fungal species.

Sexual reproduction in heterothallic ascomycete fungi is controlled by a single mating-type locus called MAT1 with two alternate alleles or idiomorphs, MAT1-1 and MAT1-2. These alleles lack sequence similarity and encode different transcriptional regulators. A large number of phytopathogenic fungi i...

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Main Authors: Jane E Stewart, Masato Kawabe, Zaid Abdo, Tsutomu Arie, Tobin L Peever
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3098265?pdf=render