Lee Soo Chan, Heitman Joseph
Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA.
Mycoses. 2014 Dec;57 Suppl 3(0 3):18-24. doi: 10.1111/myc.12244. Epub 2014 Aug 31.
Sexual development is extant in virtually all eukaryotic species, including throughout the kingdom Fungi. Positioned within the opisthokonts along with metazoans, fungi serve as model systems to elucidate the genetics and impact of sexual development. Basal fungal lineages such as the Mucoralean fungi provide a unique basis to study sexual reproduction, in which common ancestral traits found in both animal and fungal lineages may be conserved. This review discusses the sexual development, sex loci, and evolution of the sex locus in the Mucoralean fungi, which sheds light on our understanding of the evolution and functions of sex.
几乎在所有真核生物物种中都存在有性发育,包括整个真菌界。真菌与后生动物一起位于后鞭毛生物中,是阐明有性发育的遗传学和影响的模型系统。诸如毛霉目真菌之类的基础真菌谱系为研究有性生殖提供了独特的基础,在有性生殖中,动物和真菌谱系中发现的共同祖先特征可能得以保留。本综述讨论了毛霉目真菌的有性发育、性位点以及性位点的进化,这有助于我们理解性别的进化和功能。