Parasexual recombination is a valuable tool in the laboratory, particularly for asexual fungi,
and a number of developments in methodology are outlined. In biotechnology, the …

Parasexuality in fungi is discussed, including its mechanism, occurrence and significance,
with sections on somatic incompatibility, anastomosis and horizontal gene transfer, and on …

Genetic recombination in which there is no fine coordination between re combination,
segregation, and reduction as there is in meiosis, has been termed parasexual (109,110) …

Parasexuality was discovered in Aspergillus nidulans Eidam by Pontecorvo et al.(7).
Following this discovery, parasexuality was reported in a number of fungal species in …

The present article is an essay rather than a review. The discovery in 1952 by Pontecorvo &
Roper (1) of parasexual recombination in Aspergillus nidulans, ie, recombination of …

THE PARASEXUAL CYCLE Detection of a rare recombinational event in a microorganism
requires conditions that facilitate recognition of a novel phenotype in a vast popuн lation …

This chapter explores how somatic recombination can be used for genetic analysis and
strain construction. Mitotic crossing-over affects intrachromosomal recombination and results …

The benefits of sexual reproduction that outweigh its costs have long puzzled biologists.
Increased genetic diversity generated by new allelic combinations, as enhanced by …

Fungi have some of the most diverse sex lives in nature, ranging from self-fertility to obligate
outcrossing systems with several thousand different sexes, although at least 20% of fungal …

It is generally accepted that genetic recombination in eukaryotes is mostly driven by meiotic
divisions as part of the sexual cycle. The maintenance of the sexual cycle that combines …