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14 Mating-Type Structure, Function, Regulation and Evolution in the Pezizomycotina

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Growth, Differentiation and Sexuality

Part of the book series: The Mycota ((MYCOTA,volume 1))

Abstract

Significant progress has been made since the previous edition of The Mycota published in 2006. The most conspicuous advances have concerned firstly our understanding of the evolution of mating-type regions in the fungal kingdom and secondly the identification of the spectrum of target genes regulated by MAT genes. The evolutionary trajectory of mating types can now be drawn as a continuous line of HMG-box gene history spanning from the early diverged fungi to the Pezizomycotina. By contrast, the relationship of the HMG-box mating-type genes with sex determination in vertebrates, and with mating types in the Basidiomycota, remains to be elucidated. Some commonalities point to a relationship between the sex determination mechanisms in vertebrates, but the evidence for an ancestral origin of sex in the Opisthokonta is not conclusive. The acquisition of mating types in the Basidiomycota is not consistent with the continuous linear evolution of HMG-box genes. Understanding why and how HMG-box mating types in the Basidiomycota have been evicted by homeobox genes is critical to complete the history of mating-type evolution and may provide a clue to the yet unexplained presence of homeobox genes in yeast (Saccharomycotina and Taphrinomycotina) mating-type loci.

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    P. S. Dyer

  2. Department of Plant Pathology, University of California, Davis, CA, 95616, USA

    P. Inderbitzin

  3. Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC), CEA, CNRS, Univ Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, 91198, Gif-sur-Yvette cedex, France

    R. Debuchy

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Dyer, P.S., Inderbitzin, P., Debuchy, R. (2016). 14 Mating-Type Structure, Function, Regulation and Evolution in the Pezizomycotina. In: Wendland, J. (eds) Growth, Differentiation and Sexuality. The Mycota, vol 1. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25844-7_14

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