Sex, outcrossing and mating types: unsolved questions in fungi and beyond

Evidence for maintenance of sex determinants but not of sexual stages in red yeasts, a group of early diverged basidiomycetes

(2011) Marco A Coelho et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

DO ASEXUAL POLYPLOID LINEAGES LEAD SHORT EVOLUTIONARY LIVES? A CASE STUDY FROM THE FERN GENUS ASTROLEPIS

(2011) James B. Beck et al.   EVOLUTION

DEMOGRAPHY, POLLINATION, AND BAKER'S LAW

(2011) Jeremiah W. Busch   EVOLUTION

WHAT USES ARE MATING TYPES? THE “DEVELOPMENTAL SWITCH” MODEL

(2011) Nicolas Perrin   EVOLUTION

Consequences of reproductive mode on genome evolution in fungi

(2011) C.A. Whittle et al.   FUNGAL GENETICS AND BIOLOGY

Conserved Meiotic Machinery in Glomus spp., a Putatively Ancient Asexual Fungal Lineage

(2011) Sébastien Halary et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Temporal isolation explains host-related genetic differentiation in a group of widespread mycoparasitic fungi

(2011) LEVENTE KISS et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

A comprehensive phylogeny of Neurospora reveals a link between reproductive mode and molecular evolution in fungi

(2011) Kristiina Nygren et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

The many costs of sex

(2011) Jussi Lehtonen et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Having sex, yes, but with whom? Inferences from fungi on the evolution of anisogamy and mating types

(2010) Sylvain Billiard et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Evolution of Eukaryotic Microbial Pathogens via Covert Sexual Reproduction

(2010) Joseph Heitman   Cell Host & Microbe

Sex in Penicillium: Combined phylogenetic and experimental approaches

(2010) M. López-Villavicencio et al.   FUNGAL GENETICS AND BIOLOGY

The Evolution of Sex: a Perspective from the Fungal Kingdom

(2010) S. C. Lee et al.   MICROBIOLOGY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY REVIEWS

Two invasive populations of the dry rot fungusSerpula lacrymansshow divergent population genetic structures

(2010) INGEBORG BJORVAND ENGH et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Micro- and macrospatial scale analyses illustrates mixed mating strategies and extensive geneflow in populations of an invasive haploid pathogen

(2010) GUILLERMO PÉREZ et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Darwin's legacy: the forms, function and sexual diversity of flowers

(2010) S. C. H. Barrett   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Yeast Sex: Surprisingly High Rates of Outcrossing between Asci

(2010) Helen A. Murphy et al.   PLoS One

Correlated evolution of sex and reproductive mode in corals (Anthozoa: Scleractinia)

(2010) A. M. Kerr et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Species Selection Maintains Self-Incompatibility

(2010) E. E. Goldberg et al.   SCIENCE

Emergence and Pathogenicity of Highly Virulent Cryptococcus gattii Genotypes in the Northwest United States

(2010) Edmond J. Byrnes et al.   PLoS Pathogens

The Evolutionary Enigma of Sex

(2009) Sarah P. Otto   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Rapid diversification of mating systems in ciliates

(2009) SUJAL S. PHADKE et al.   BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Isolation by landscape in populations of a prized edible mushroom Tricholoma matsutake

(2009) Anthony Amend et al.   CONSERVATION GENETICS

THE EVOLUTION OF ASSORTATIVE MATING AND SELFING WITH IN- AND OUTBREEDING DEPRESSION

(2009) Guillaume Epinat et al.   EVOLUTION

Homothallic and heterothallic mating in the opportunistic pathogen Candida albicans

(2009) Kevin Alby et al.   NATURE

The genetics of inbreeding depression

(2009) Deborah Charlesworth et al.   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

Signs of sex: what we know and how we know it

(2009) Andrew M. Schurko et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

The Sicker Sex

(2009) Marlene Zuk   PLoS Pathogens

Evidence of Recombination in Mixed-Mating-Type and α-Only Populations ofCryptococcus gattiiSourced from SingleEucalyptusTree Hollows

(2008) Nathan Saul et al.   EUKARYOTIC CELL

Isolates ofCryptococcus neoformansfrom Infected Animals Reveal Genetic Exchange in Unisexual, α Mating Type Populations

(2008) Tien Bui et al.   EUKARYOTIC CELL

Mating System of the Anther Smut FungusMicrobotryum violaceum: Selfing under Heterothallism

(2008) Tatiana Giraud et al.   EUKARYOTIC CELL

Characterization and population analysis of the mating-type genes in Aspergillus flavus and Aspergillus parasiticus

(2008) Jorge H. Ramirez-Prado et al.   FUNGAL GENETICS AND BIOLOGY

Genetic structure of the poplar rust fungus Melampsora larici-populina: Evidence for isolation by distance in Europe and recent founder effects overseas

(2008) Benoît Barrès et al.   INFECTION GENETICS AND EVOLUTION

The Dynamic Nature of Apomixis in the Angiosperms

(2008) Jeannette Whitton et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PLANT SCIENCES

Loss of Self‐Incompatibility and Its Evolutionary Consequences

(2008) Boris Igic et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PLANT SCIENCES

Long-distance dispersal and recombination in environmental populations of Cryptococcus neoformans var. grubii from India

(2008) S. S. Hiremath et al.   MICROBIOLOGY-SGM

Geostatistical genetic analysis for inferring the dispersal pattern of a partially clonal species: example of the chestnut blight fungus

(2008) C. DUTECH et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Genetic structure of an expanding Armillaria root rot fungus (Armillaria ostoyae) population in a managed pine forest in southwestern France

(2008) S. PROSPERO et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Evidence from population genetics that the ectomycorrhizal basidiomycete Laccaria amethystina is an actual multihost symbiont

(2008) MELANIE ROY et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Population genomics of the wild yeast Saccharomyces paradoxus: Quantifying the life cycle

(2008) I. J. Tsai et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA