Sex in fungi molecular determination and evolutionary implications/ edited by Joseph Heitman

I. General Principles

1. The Evolution of MAT: the Ascomycetes / Geraldine Butler

2. Evolution of the Mating-Type Locus: the Basidiomycetes / James A. Fraser, Yen-Ping Hsueh, Keisha M. Findley and Joseph Heitman

3. Mechanisms of Homothallism in Fungi and Transitions between Heterothallism and Homothallism / Xiaorong Lin and Joseph Heitman

4. Mating-Type Locus Control of Cell Identity / Brynne C. Stanton and Christina M. Hull

5. Rewiring Transcriptional Circuitry: Mating-Type Regulation in Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Candida albicans as a Model for Evolution / Annie E. Tsong, Brian B. Tuch and Alexander D. Johnson

II. Ascomycetes: From Model Yeasts to Plant and Human Pathogens

6. Cochliobolus and Podospora: Mechanisms of Sex Determination and the Evolution of Reproductive Lifestyle / B. Gillian Turgeon and Robert Debuchy

7. Sexual Reproduction and Significance of MAT in the Aspergilli / Paul S. Dyer

8. The mat Genes of Schizosaccharomyces pombe: Expression, Homothallic Switch, and Silencing / Olaf Nielsen and Richard Egel

9. Decisions, Decisions: Donor Preference during Budding Yeast Mating-Type Switching / James E. Haber

10. MAT and Its Role in the Homothallic Ascomycete Sordaria macrospora / Stefanie Poggeler

11. Evolution of Silencing at the Mating-Type Loci in Hemiascomycetes / Laura N. Rusche and Meleah A. Hickman

12. The Evolutionary Implications of an Asexual Lifestyle Manifested by Penicillium marneffei / Matthew C. Fisher

III. Ascomycetes: The Candida Mat Locus and Related Topics

13. MAT, Mating, Switching, and Pathogenesis in Candida albicans, Candida dubliniensis, and Candida glabrata / David R. Soll and Karla J. Daniels

14. Evolution of MAT in the Candida Species Complex: Sex, Ploidy, and Complete Sexual Cycles in C. lusitaniae, C. guilliermondii, and C. krusei / Jennifer L. Reedy and Joseph Heitman

15. Ascomycetes: the Candida MAT Locus: Comparing MAT in the Genomes of Hemiascomycetous Yeasts / Heloise Muller, Christophe Hennequin, Bernard Dujon and Cecile Fairhead

IV. Basidiomycetes: The Mushrooms

16. Cloning the Mating-Type Genes of Schizophyllum commune: a Historical Perspective / Mary M. Stankis and Charles A. Specht

17. The Origin of Multiple Mating Types in the Model Mushrooms Coprinopsis cinerea and Schizopbyllum commune / Lorna A. Casselton and Ursula Kues

18. Pheromones and Pheromone Receptors in Schizophyllum commune Mate Recognition: Retrospective of a Half-Century of Progress and a Look Ahead / Thomas J. Fowler and Lisa J. Vaillancourt

19. Analysis of Mating-Type Locus Organization and Synteny in Mushroom Fungi: Beyond Model Species / Timothy Y. James

20. Dikaryons, Diploids, and Evolution / James B. Anderson and Linda M. Kohn

V. Basidiomycetes: Plant and Animal Pathogenic Yeasts

21. History of the Mating Types in Ustilago maydis / Flora Banuett

22. Mating in the Smut Fungi: from a to b to the Downstream Cascades / Regine Kahmann and Jan Schirawski

23. Bipolar and Tetrapolar Mating Systems in the Ustilaginales / Guus Bakkeren and James W. Kronstad

VI. Zygomycetes, Chytridiomycetes, and Oomycetes: The Frontiers of Knowledge

24. Sex in the Rest: Mysterious Mating in the Chytridiomycota and Zygomycota / Alexander Idnurm, Timothy Y. James and Rytas Vilgalys -

25. How the Genome Is Organized in the Glomeromycota / Teresa E. Pawlowska

26. Trisporic Acid and Mating in Zygomycetes / Johannes Wostemeyer and Christine Schimek

27. Sexual Reproduction in Plant Pathogenic Oomycetes: Biology and Impact on Disease / Howard S. Judelson -

VII. The Implications of Sex --
28. Origin, Evolution, and Extinction of Asexual Fungi: Experimental Tests Using Cryptococcus neoformans / Jianping Xu

29. Sex in Natural Populations of Cryptococcus gattii / Dee Carter, Nathan Saul, Leona Campbell, Tien Bui and Mark Krockenberger

30. Why Bother with Sex? Answers from Experiments with Yeast and Other Organisms / Matthew R. Goddard

31. Ploidy and the Sexual Yeast Genome in Theory, Nature, and Experiment / Clifford Zeyl

32. Why Sex Is Good: on Fungi and Beyond / Duur K. Aanen and Rolf F. Hoekstra.