Marco A. Coelho

TL;DR: Whether evolutionary strata can evolve without sexual antagonism using fungi that display suppressed recombination extending beyond loci determining mating compatibility despite lack of male/female roles associated with their mating types is investigated.

TL;DR: In this article, a recent study on anther-smut fungi documented supergene formation by rearrangements linking two key mating-type loci, controlling pre-and post-mating compatibility.

TL;DR: Advances in genome sequencing and assembly are yielding new insights by comparative approaches among and within basidiomycete species, with the promise to resolve the evolutionary origins and dynamics of mating compatibility genetics in this major eukaryotic lineage.

TL;DR: It is shown that the red yeast Sporidiobolus salmonicolor has a mating system unlike any previously described because occasional disruptions of the genetic cohesion of the bipolar MAT locus originate new mating types, and it is confirmed that mating is normally bipolar and that heterozygosity at both MAT regions is required for mating.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors studied the phylogenetic distribution and pattern of inheritance of a fungal gene encoding a fructose transporter (FSY1) with unique substrate selectivity in two sub-phyla of the Ascomycota.