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Gamete fusion triggers bipartite transcription factor assembly to block re-fertilization
During sexual reproduction in Schizosaccharomyces pombe, the rapid reconstitution of a bipartite Mi–Pi transcription complex after fusion blocks re-fertilization and induces meiosis, which ensures that the genome is maintained.
- Aleksandar Vještica
- , Laura Merlini
- & Sophie G. Martin
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Article |
The ‘obligate diploid’ Candida albicans forms mating-competent haploids
Candida albicans is a prominent human fungal pathogen that until now was thought to be an obligate diploid; here it is shown that C. albicans can form viable haploids, that these haploids are able to mate to form heterozygous diploids, and that haploids and their auto-diploids are significantly less fit in vitro and in vivo than heterozygous progenitors or diploids formed by haploid mating pairs.
- Meleah A. Hickman
- , Guisheng Zeng
- & Judith Berman
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News |
How brainless slime molds redefine intelligence
Single-celled amoebae can remember, make decisions and anticipate change, urging scientists to rethink intelligent behavior.
- Ferris Jabr
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News |
Fungus that controls zombie-ants has own fungal stalker
A specialized parasite fungus can control ants' behavior. But that fungus also faces its own deadly, specialized parasites.
- Katherine Harmon
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Letter |
Saccharomyces cerevisiae THI4p is a suicide thiamine thiazole synthase
- Abhishek Chatterjee
- , N. Dinuka Abeydeera
- & Tadhg P. Begley
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News & Views |
Farming writ small
Social slime moulds graze on bacteria, but save some for transmission in their spores. Strains practising this primitive form of farming coexist with non-farmer strains in an intriguing cost–benefit equilibrium. See Letter p.393
- Jacobus J. Boomsma
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