BMC Evolutionary Biology

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Gene genealogies indicates abundant gene conversions and independent evolutionary histories of the mating-type chromosomes in the evolutionary history of Neurospora tetrasperma

Audrius Menkis1, Carrie A Whittle2 and Hanna Johannesson2*

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1 Uppsala BioCenter, Department of Forest Mycology and Pathology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden

2 Department of Evolutionary Biology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

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BMC Evolutionary Biology 2010, 10:234 doi:10.1186/1471-2148-10-234

Published: 31 July 2010

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Gene genealogies of 8 genes in the two chromosomal flanks of the mat chromosomes of Neurospora tetrasperma. Alleles from homokaryotic single mating-type component originating from wild-type heterokaryons were marked with the same color. Gene genealogies of 8 genes in the two chromosomal flanks of the mat chromosomes of Neurospora tetrasperma.

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