Mating type genes in the genus Neofusicoccum: Mating strategies and usefulness in species delimitation

A Lopes, AJL Phillips, A Alves - Fungal Biology, 2017 - Elsevier
The genus Neofusicoccum includes species with wide geographical and plant host
distribution, some of them of economic importance. The genus currently comprises 27 …

Genealogical concordance between the mating type locus and seven other nuclear genes supports formal recognition of nine phylogenetically distinct species within …

K O'Donnell, TJ Ward, DM Geiser, HC Kistler… - Fungal genetics and …, 2004 - Elsevier
Species limits were investigated within the Fusarium graminearum clade (Fg clade) through
phylogenetic analyses of DNA sequences from portions of 11 nuclear genes including the …

Mating type gene analyses in the genus Diplodia: From cryptic sex to cryptic species

A Lopes, BT Linaldeddu, AJL Phillips, A Alves - Fungal biology, 2018 - Elsevier
Cryptic species are common in Diplodia, a genus that includes some well-known and
economically important plant pathogens. Thus, species delimitation has been based on the …

Structure and evolution of the Fusarium mating type locus: new insights from the Gibberella fujikuroi complex

SH Martin, BD Wingfield, MJ Wingfield… - Fungal genetics and …, 2011 - Elsevier
Mating type genes are central to sexual reproduction and compatibility in Ascomycete fungi.
However the “MAT” loci experience unique evolutionary pressures that can result in rapid …

Conflict between reproductive gene trees and species phylogeny among heterothallic and pseudohomothallic members of the filamentous ascomycete genus …

R Strandberg, K Nygren, A Menkis, TY James… - Fungal Genetics and …, 2010 - Elsevier
In this study, we investigated the genealogies of genes important for sexual identity, ie
mating-type (mat) and pheromone-receptor (pre) genes, among heterothallic and …

Unequal Recombination and Evolution of the Mating-Type (MAT) Loci in the Pathogenic Fungus Grosmannia clavigera and Relatives

CKM Tsui, S DiGuistini, Y Wang, N Feau… - G3: Genes …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Sexual reproduction in fungi is regulated by the mating-type (MAT) locus where
recombination is suppressed. We investigated the evolution of MAT loci in eight fungal …

A global multilocus analysis of the model fungus Neurospora reveals a single recent origin of a novel genetic system

P Corcoran, JR Dettman, Y Sun, EM Luque… - Molecular phylogenetics …, 2014 - Elsevier
The large diversity of mating systems observed in the fungal kingdom underlines the
importance of mating system change in fungal evolution. The selfing species Neurospora …

Both mating types in the heterothallic fungus Ophiostoma quercus contain MAT1-1 and MAT1-2 genes

PM Wilken, ET Steenkamp, TA Hall, ZW De Beer… - Fungal biology, 2012 - Elsevier
In heterothallic Ascomycota, two opposite but distinct mating types control all sexual
processes. Using mating crosses, mating types were assigned to ten isolates of the …

Use of the Genealogical Sorting Index (GSI) to delineate species boundaries in the Neofusicoccum parvum–Neofusicoccum ribis species complex

ML Sakalidis, GESJ Hardy, TI Burgess - Molecular Phylogenetics and …, 2011 - Elsevier
Neofusicoccum is a recently described genus of common endophytes and pathogens of
woody hosts, previously placed in the genus Botryosphaeria. Many morphological …

Efficient Cloning of Ascomycete Mating Type Genes by PCR Amplification of the ConservedMATHMG Box

T Arie, SK Christiansen, OC Yoder… - Fungal Genetics and …, 1997 - Elsevier
Cloning of mating type (MAT) genes from ascomycetes has been hampered by low
conservation among them. One of the pair ofMATgenes, represented byMAT …