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SUBMITTER: Russo MT
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6261938 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nature communications 20181128 1
A broad diversity of sex-determining systems has evolved in eukaryotes. However, information on the mechanisms of sex determination for unicellular microalgae is limited, including for diatoms, key-players of ocean food webs. Here we report the identification of a mating type (MT) determining gene for the diatom Pseudo-nitzschia multistriata. By comparing the expression profile of the two MTs, we find five MT-biased genes, of which one, MRP3, is expressed exclusively in MT+ strains in a monoalle ...[more]