Is sex necessary?

Evolution of Mating within the Candida parapsilosis Species Group

(2011) Sixiang Sai et al.   EUKARYOTIC CELL

A Deviation from the Bipolar-Tetrapolar Mating Paradigm in an Early Diverged Basidiomycete

(2010) Marco A. Coelho et al.   PLoS Genetics

Mechanistic Plasticity of Sexual Reproduction and Meiosis in the Candida Pathogenic Species Complex

(2009) Jennifer L. Reedy et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Homothallic and heterothallic mating in the opportunistic pathogen Candida albicans

(2009) Kevin Alby et al.   NATURE

Evolution of pathogenicity and sexual reproduction in eight Candida genomes

(2009) Geraldine Butler et al.   NATURE

The Asexual YeastCandida glabrataMaintains Distinctaand α Haploid Mating Types

(2008) Héloïse Muller et al.   EUKARYOTIC CELL

Identification of Mating Type Genes in the Bipolar Basidiomycetous YeastRhodosporidium toruloides: First Insight into theMATLocus Structure of theSporidiobolales

(2008) Marco A. Coelho et al.   EUKARYOTIC CELL

Discovery of a sexual cycle in the opportunistic fungal pathogen Aspergillus fumigatus

(2008) Céline M. O’Gorman et al.   NATURE