Arturo P. Eslava

TL;DR: A model with a photoreceptor, early and late linear transducers, a logarithmic transducer and a growth-controlling element is proposed for the information channel of the phototropic response.

TL;DR: The genome duplication provided the means to improve signal transduction for enhanced perception of environmental signals and will help to understand the role of genome dynamics in the evolution of sensory perception in eukaryotes.

TL;DR: It is described that the madA mutant strains contain point mutations in one of these genes and that these mutations cosegregate with a defect in phototropism after genetic crosses, which means that the phototropic responses of fungi through madA and plants through phototropin rely on diverse proteins; however, these proteins share a conserved flavin-binding domain for photon detection.

TL;DR: It has been shown that a single M. circinelloides gene (carRP) codes for a protein with two different enzymatic activities, lycopene cyclase and phytoene synthase, which are encoded by independent genes in organisms other than fungi.

TL;DR: Findings are consistent with the hypothesis that VCGs represent clonal lineages that rarely, if ever, reproduce sexually in Fusarium oxysporum, as there is no correlation between pathogenicity and VCG, IGS restriction fragment length polymorphism, or electrophoretic karyotype.