Meiosis: dances between homologs

D Zickler, N Kleckner - Annual Review of Genetics, 2023 - annualreviews.org
The raison d'être of meiosis is shuffling of genetic information via Mendelian segregation
and, within individual chromosomes, by DNA crossing-over. These outcomes are enabled …

Small RNAs and their protein partners in animal meiosis

M de las Mercedes Carro, A Grimson… - Current Topics in …, 2023 - Elsevier
Meiosis is characterized by highly regulated transitions in gene expression that require
diverse mechanisms of gene regulation. For example, in male mammals, transcription …

Meiotic chromosome organization and crossover patterns

Y Shang, T Tan, C Fan, H Nie, Y Wang… - Biology of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Meiosis is the foundation of sexual reproduction, and crossover recombination is one
hallmark of meiosis. Crossovers establish the physical connections between homolog …

Canonical and noncanonical roles of Hop1 are crucial for meiotic prophase in the fungus Sordaria macrospora

E Dubois, S Boisnard, HM Bourbon, K Yefsah… - Plos …, 2024 - journals.plos.org
We show here that in the fungus Sordaria macrospora, the meiosis-specific HORMA-domain
protein Hop1 is not essential for the basic early events of chromosome axis development …

Argonaute and Dicer are essential for communication between Trichoderma atroviride and fungal hosts during mycoparasitism

EE Enriquez-Felix, C Pérez-Salazar… - Microbiology …, 2024 - Am Soc Microbiol
Trichoderma species are known for their mycoparasitic activity against phytopathogenic
fungi that cause significant economic losses in agriculture. During mycoparasitism …

[HTML][HTML] Mycologists and Virologists Align: Proposing Botrytis cinerea for Global Mycovirus Studies

ME Khalifa, MA Ayllón, L Rodriguez Coy, KM Plummer… - Viruses, 2024 - mdpi.com
Mycoviruses are highly genetically diverse and can significantly change their fungal host's
phenotype, yet they are generally under-described in genotypic and biological studies. We …

Functional characterization of the developmental genes asm2, asm3, and spt3 required for fruiting body formation in the filamentous ascomycete Sordaria macrospora

R Lütkenhaus, J Breuer, M Nowrousian - Genetics, 2021 - academic.oup.com
The formation of fruiting bodies is one of the most complex developmental processes in
filamentous ascomycetes. It requires the development of sexual structures that give rise to …