Vegetative incompatibility in filamentous fungi: Podospora and Neurospora provide some clues.
In filamentous fungi, vegetative cell fusion between genotypically distinct individuals leads to a cell-death reaction known as vegetative or heterokaryon incompatibility. Genes involved in this reaction have been characterised molecularly. We can now begin to get a better understanding of the mechanism and the biological significance of this intriguing phenomenon.
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Laboratoire de Génétique Moléculaire des Champignons, IBGC UMR CNRS 5095, 1 rue Camille St Saëns, 33077 Bordeaux Cedex, France. sven.saupe@ibgc.u-bordeaux.fr
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D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D001203:Ascomycota / Q000235:genetics / Q000502:physiology*; D005656:Fungal Proteins / Q000235:genetics; D005800:Genes, Fungal; D011328:Prions / Q000235:genetics; D016415:Sequence Alignment
D005656:Fungal Proteins; D011328:Prions