Fungal sex and mushrooms
Subtitle: a credit to Lorna Casselton
By: guest editors Ursula Kües and Joseph Heitman ; senior editors Nick D. Read, Geoffrey D. Robson
Series: Fungal biology reviews -- v. 29, issues 3/4
Publisher: Elsevier
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Amsterdam
Language: eng
Number of pages: 229
Subjects: Fungi; Reproduction; Mushrooms
Notes: Special issue of Fungal Biology Reviews.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: In memory of Lorna Ann Casselton, CBE, MA, PhD, DSc, MAE, FRS / U. Kües; title: Evolution of sexual reproduction: A View from the fungal kingdom supports an evolutionary epoch with sex before sexes / J. Heitman; title: From two to one: Unipolar sexual reproduction / S. Sun, J. Heitman; title: From two to many: Multiple mating types in Basidiomycetes / U. Kües; title: Why mushrooms have evolved to be so promiscuous: Insights from evolutionary and ecological patterns / T.Y. James; title: Mating-type genes and hyphal fusions in filamentous basidiomycetes / M. Raudaskoski; title: From dikaryon to diploid / F. Banuett; title: Mitochondrial inheritance in basidiomycete fungi / J. Xu, P. Wang; title: Contrasted patterns in mating-type chromosomes in fungi: Hotspots versus coldspots of recombination / A. Idnurm, M. E. Hood, H. Johannesson, T. Giraud.