… Abstract Spore killers in fungi are selfish genetic elements … Here, we discover two spore
killers from a natural isolate of … two active spore killers, which both belong to the wtf gene family. …

… genes of the Spok gene family underlie the Psk spore killers (49), and the relationship
between the Spok gene family … The wtf genes comprise a large gene family, originally identified …

… fungi for which new data are currently emerging at a high pace: the spore killers Table 1 . …
Although we currently only have two examples of spore killing gene family expansion, they …

… spore killers reveal that numerous systems are enacted by single genes, and similar molecular
genetic … evolutionary relationship between this gene family and these massive TEs, or …

… Our mate-pair pileup approach could also miss additional wtf gene copies if they were
found within larger recently duplicated regions of the genome. To look for such wtf …

… the study of spore killers in … gene family of 25 members frequently associated with transposons
(wtf stands for with Tf transposons) had previously been noted as the largest gene family …

… of the mechanisms underlying spore killers are limited. In … them into high concentrations
of glucose to suppress gene … action described here will be conserved in this gene family. …

Recent molecular investigations of hybrid incompatibilities have revealed fascinating patterns
of genetic interactions that have been interpreted as the remnants of a history of selfish …

… Spok genes (Spok3 and Spok4) that are both spore killers. … Here we show that the Spok
gene family underlies the Psks. … several members of the large gene family known as odorant …

… We first assume 146 that the population is sufficiently large that … We then relax the assumption
of infinitely large population … costs affect spore killers very little 343 during early invasion. …