Sex-specific expression during asexual development of Neurospora crassa under constant light condition

ABSTRACT: It is widely assumed that sex-determination loci have little impact upon dominant stage in the life history of filamentous fungi, asexual development. However, this hypothesis has not been thoroughly investigated. To investigate differences between mating types during asexual development, total RNA was sampled from otherwise largely isogenic Mat-A and Mat-a N. crassa strains at early, middle, and late clonal stages of development under a condition of constant light. Mating-type loci, pheromone precursor and receptor genes were assayed with real-time PCR. Mating loci were increasingly expressed during asexual development, and expression of pheromone precursors ccg-4 and mfa-1 and receptors pre-1 and pre-2 were detected in both mating types in all development stages. A circuit of microarray

ORGANISM(S): Neurospora crassa

SUBMITTER: Francesc Lopez 

PROVIDER: E-GEOD-26209 | biostudies-arrayexpress |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress