Having sex, yes, but with whom? Inferences from fungi on the evolution of anisogamy and mating types

S Billiard, M López‐Villavicencio, B Devier… - Biological …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
The advantage of sex has been among the most debated issues in biology. Surprisingly, the
question of why sexual reproduction generally requires the combination of distinct gamete …

Local and regional chromatin silencing in Candida glabrata: consequences for adhesion and the response to stress

A De Las Peñas, J Juárez-Cepeda… - FEMS yeast …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Candida glabrata is a fungal pathogen frequently found as a commensal in humans. To
colonize and disseminate successfully in the mammalian host, C. glabrata must detect …

Multiple reinventions of mating-type switching during budding yeast evolution

T Krassowski, J Kominek, XX Shen, DA Opulente… - Current Biology, 2019 - cell.com
Cell type in budding yeasts is determined by the genotype at the mating-type (MAT) locus,
but yeast species differ widely in their mating compatibility systems and life cycles. Among …

The Asexual Yeast Candida glabrata Maintains Distinct a and α Haploid Mating Types

H Muller, C Hennequin, J Gallaud, B Dujon… - Eukaryotic …, 2008 - Am Soc Microbiol
The genome of the type strain of Candida glabrata (CBS138, ATCC 2001) contains
homologs of most of the genes involved in mating in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, starting …

The yeast mating-type switching endonuclease HO is a domesticated member of an unorthodox homing genetic element family

AY Coughlan, L Lombardi, S Braun-Galleani… - Elife, 2020 - elifesciences.org
The mating-type switching endonuclease HO plays a central role in the natural life cycle of
Saccharomyces cerevisiae, but its evolutionary origin is unknown. HO is a recent addition to …

Unusual composition of a yeast chromosome arm is associated with its delayed replication

C Payen, G Fischer, C Marck, C Proux… - Genome …, 2009 - genome.cshlp.org
The 11.3-Mb genome of the yeast Lachancea (Saccharomyces) kluyveri displays an
intriguing compositional heterogeneity: a region of∼ 1 Mb, covering almost the whole left …

Efficient Mating-Type Switching in Candida glabrata Induces Cell Death

S Boisnard, Y Zhou Li, S Arnaise, G Sequeira… - PLoS …, 2015 - journals.plos.org
Candida glabrata is an apparently asexual haploid yeast that is phylogenetically closer to
Saccharomyces cerevisiae than to Candida albicans. Its genome contains three MAT-like …

The Spatiotemporal Program of Replication in the Genome of Lachancea kluyveri

N Agier, OM Romano, F Touzain… - Genome biology and …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
We generated a genome-wide replication profile in the genome of Lachancea kluyveri and
assessed the relationship between replication and base composition. This species diverged …

Genome-wide replication landscape of Candida glabrata

S Descorps-Declère, C Saguez, A Cournac… - BMC biology, 2015 - Springer
Abstract Background The opportunistic pathogen Candida glabrata is a member of the
Saccharomycetaceae yeasts. Like its close relative Saccharomyces cerevisiae, it underwent …

Candida glabrata, the other yeast pathogen

M Bolotin-Fukuhara, C Fairhead - FEMS Yeast Research, 2016 - academic.oup.com
The ascomycete yeast Candida glabrata ranks second, in many studies, after Candida
albicans as the most frequent yeast pathogen of humans, responsible for many types of …