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Convergent evolution of chromosomal sex-determining regions in the animal and fungal kingdoms.

PLoS biology - 1 Dec 2004

Fraser James A, Diezmann Stephanie, Subaran Ryan L, Allen Andria, Lengeler Klaus B, Dietrich Fred S, Heitman Joseph

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Sexual identity is governed by sex chromosomes in plants and animals, and by mating type (MAT) loci in fungi. Comparative analysis of the MAT locus from a species cluster of the human fungal pathogen Cryptococcus revealed sequential evolutionary events that fashioned this large, highly unusual re...

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PMID: 15538538
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0020384
PMCID: PMC526376

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