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Is sex necessary?

Fungal sexual reproductive modes have markedly high diversity and plasticity, and asexual species have been hypothesized to arise frequently from sexual fungal species. A recent study on the red yeasts provides further support for the notion that sexual ancestors may give rise to shorter-lived asexu...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Sun, Sheng, Heitman, Joseph
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3199587/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21880159
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1741-7007-9-56
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Sumario:Fungal sexual reproductive modes have markedly high diversity and plasticity, and asexual species have been hypothesized to arise frequently from sexual fungal species. A recent study on the red yeasts provides further support for the notion that sexual ancestors may give rise to shorter-lived asexual species. However, presumed asexual species may also be cryptically sexual, as revealed by other recent studies. See research article: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2148/11/249