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Conservation of the b mating-type gene complex among bipolar and tetrapolar smut fungi.
The Plant cell - 1 Jan 1993
Bakkeren G, Kronstad J W
Abstract excerpt
In the phytopathogenic fungus Ustilago hordei, one locus with two alternate alleles, MAT-1 and MAT-2, controls mating and the establishment of the infectious dikaryon (bipolar mating). In contrast, for U. maydis, these functions are associated with two different gene complexes, called a and b (tetrapolar mating); the a complex has two alternate specificities, and the b gene complex is multiallelic. We have found...
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