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
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Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2022-05-01
Series:PLoS Pathogens
Online Access:https://journals.plos.org/plospathogens/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.ppat.1010439&type=printable
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description 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 outcome of increased genotypic diversity, independent of sexual reproduction. We provide criteria to demonstrate whether somatic exchange has occurred, including knowledge of parental haplotypes and rejection of fertilisation in normal rust life cycles.
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Sexual reproduction is the null hypothesis for life cycles of rust fungi.
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title Sexual reproduction is the null hypothesis for life cycles of rust fungi.
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title_short Sexual reproduction is the null hypothesis for life cycles of rust fungi.
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