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WD-repeat instability and diversification of the Podospora anserina hnwd non-self recognition gene family.
BMC evolutionary biology - 6 May 2010
Chevanne Damien, Saupe Sven J, Clavé Corinne, Paoletti Mathieu
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BACKGROUND: Genes involved in non-self recognition and host defence are typically capable of rapid diversification and exploit specialized genetic mechanism to that end. Fungi display a non-self recognition phenomenon termed heterokaryon incompatibility that operates when cells of unlike genotype fuse and leads to the cell death of the fusion cell. In the fungus Podospora anserina, three genes controlling this...
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