Evolutionary biology: microsporidia sex--a missing link to fungi.
The evolutionary origins of the microsporidia, a group of intracellular eukaryotic pathogens, have been unclear. Genome analysis of a sex locus and other gene clusters has now revealed conserved synteny with zygomycete fungi, indicating that microsporidia are true fungi descended from a zygomycete ancestor.
Dyer
Paul S
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School of Biology, University of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham NG7 2RD, UK. Paul.Dyer@Nottingham.ac.uk
D005075:Biological Evolution; D049770:Genes, Mating Type, Fungal; D016681:Genome, Fungal; D016814:Microsporidia / Q000235:genetics*; D026801:Synteny