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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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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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description | 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 |
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spelling | pubmed-31995872011-10-24 Is sex necessary? Sun, Sheng Heitman, Joseph BMC Biol Commentary 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 BioMed Central 2011-08-31 /pmc/articles/PMC3199587/ /pubmed/21880159 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1741-7007-9-56 Text en Copyright ©2011 Sun and Heitman; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Commentary Sun, Sheng Heitman, Joseph Is sex necessary? |
title | Is sex necessary? |
title_full | Is sex necessary? |
title_fullStr | Is sex necessary? |
title_full_unstemmed | Is sex necessary? |
title_short | Is sex necessary? |
title_sort | is sex necessary? |
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url | 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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