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Molecular and Functional Analysis of the a Mating Type Genes of Coprinus Cinereus

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The mushroom Coprinus cinereus has a typical hymenomycete life cycle (1). Two different vegetative states can be distinguished, the self sterile monokaryon and the fertile dikaryon. The monokaryon is the mycelium which develops from a single sexual spore. It has uninucleate cells and produces abundant asexual spores, the oidia. The dikaryon is formed by a compatible mating between two monokaryons. It has binucleate cells, one nucleus from each mate, and in C. cinereus, characteristic clamp connections at each septum. The dikaryon no longer produces oidia, but given the right temperature and light stimuli differentiates the fruiting bodies. The two different nuclei of the dikaryon fuse in special basidial cells on the undersurface of the mushroom and meiosis follows immediately. The nuclei produced enter the four basidiospores which develop on each basidium. A mature fruit body may have 108 basidia providing a vast potential for genetic recombination (2).

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Kües, U., Casselton, L.A. (1992). Molecular and Functional Analysis of the a Mating Type Genes of Coprinus Cinereus . In: Setlow, J.K. (eds) Genetic Engineering. Genetic Engineering, vol 14. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-3424-2_14

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