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Culturing and Mating of Aspergillus fumigatus (2019)
Journal Article
Ashton, G. D., & Dyer, P. S. (2019). Culturing and Mating of Aspergillus fumigatus. Current Protocols in Microbiology, 54(1), https://doi.org/10.1002/cpmc.87

Aspergillus fumigatus is an opportunistic human fungal pathogen, capable of causing invasive aspergillosis in patients with compromised immune systems. The fungus was long considered a purely asexual organism. However, a sexual cycle was reported in... Read More about Culturing and Mating of Aspergillus fumigatus.

Whole-genome sequence data uncover widespread heterothallism in the largest group of lichen-forming fungi (2019)
Journal Article
Pizarro, D., Dal Grande, F., Don Leavitt, S., Stanley Dyer, P., Schmitt, I., Crespo, A., …Kumar Divakar, P. (2019). Whole-genome sequence data uncover widespread heterothallism in the largest group of lichen-forming fungi. Genome Biology and Evolution, 11(3), 721-730. https://doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evz027

Fungal reproduction is regulated by the mating-type (MAT1) locus, which typically comprises two idiomorphic genes. The presence of one or both allelic variants at the locus determines the reproductive strategy in Fungi – homothallism vs. heterothalli... Read More about Whole-genome sequence data uncover widespread heterothallism in the largest group of lichen-forming fungi.