Analyses of expressed sequence tags in Neurosporareveal rapid evolution of genes associated with the early stages of sexual reproduction in fungi
Nygren K, Wallberg A, Samils N, Stajich JE, Townsend JP, Karlsson M, Johannesson H. Analyses of expressed sequence tags in Neurosporareveal rapid evolution of genes associated with the early stages of sexual reproduction in fungi. BMC Ecology And Evolution 2012, 12: 229. PMID: 23186325, PMCID: PMC3571971, DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-12-229.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsSex-associated genesVegetative tissuesSequence tagsRapid evolutionCandidate genesGenome-wide patternsFruiting-body developmentMolecular evolutionary analysisHigher relative expressionFungal kingdomReproductive isolationSexual reproductionGenome scaleReproductive genesEvolutionary analysisN. discretaMate recognitionN. crassaN. tetraspermaPositive selectionAdditional taxaMicroarray hybridizationAdditional speciesN. intermediaVegetative growth