Sexual reproduction is the null hypothesis for life cycles of rust fungi.

Sexual reproduction, mutation, and reassortment of nuclei increase genotypic diversity in rust fungi. Sexual reproduction is inherent to rust fungi, coupled with their coevolved plant hosts in native pathosystems. Rust fungi are hypothesised to exchange nuclei by somatic hybridisation with an outcom...

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Main Authors: Alistair R McTaggart, Timothy Y James, Alexander Idnurm, Robert F Park, Louise S Shuey, Michelle N K Demers, M Catherine Aime
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2022-05-01
Series:PLoS Pathogens
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1010439