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Introgression maintains the genetic integrity of the mating-type determining chromosome of the fungus Neurospora tetrasperma.
Genome research - 1 Apr 2016
Corcoran Pádraic, Anderson Jennifer L, Jacobson David J, Sun Yu, Ni Peixiang, Lascoux Martin, Johannesson Hanna
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Genome evolution is driven by a complex interplay of factors, including selection, recombination, and introgression. The regions determining sexual identity are particularly dynamic parts of eukaryotic genomes that are prone to molecular degeneration associated with suppressed recombination. In the fungus Neurospora tetrasperma, it has been proposed that this molecular degeneration is counteracted by the...
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