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A Meiotic Drive Element in the Maize Pathogen Fusarium verticillioides Is Located Within a 102 kb Region of Chromosome V.
G3 (Bethesda, Md.) - 9 Aug 2016
Pyle Jay, Patel Tejas, Merrill Brianna, Nsokoshi Chabu, McCall Morgan, Proctor Robert H, Brown Daren W, Hammond Thomas M
Abstract excerpt
Fusarium verticillioides is an agriculturally important fungus because of its association with maize and its propensity to contaminate grain with toxic compounds. Some isolates of the fungus harbor a meiotic drive element known as Spore killer (Sk(K)) that causes nearly all surviving meiotic progeny from an Sk(K) × Spore killer-susceptible (Sk(S)) cross to inherit the Sk(K) allele. Sk(K) has been mapped to...
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