Reproduction, Sexual
Identification of the Mating-Type (MAT) Locus That Controls Sexual Reproduction of Blastomyces dermatitidis
... controlling sexual development have been known for a long time, the genes control- ling sexual reproduction of ...Immature sexual structures were observed starting at 3 weeks of coculture, ...
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Sex and death : the effects of innate immune factors on the sexual reproduction of malaria parasites
... Malaria parasites must undergo a round of sexual reproduction in the blood meal of a mosquito vector to be transmitted between hosts. Developing a transmission-blocking intervention to prevent parasites ...
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Sexual Reproduction and Enhancing the Efficacy of Biocontrol of Aflatoxin Contamination by Aspergillus flavus.
... including aflatoxin, produced by the fungus. To the best of our knowledge, there is little to no information available on changes in morphology, secondary metabolism, and transcription during the fertilization of ...
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The placental analogue and the pattern of sexual reproduction in the cheilostome bryozoan Bicellariella ciliata (Gymnolaemata)
... Although the pioneering research of Nitsche [36] studied different aspects of the sexual reproduction of Bicellar- iella ciliata, a number of important points were either overlooked or left without an ...
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The optimal balance between sexual and asexual reproduction in variable environments: a systematic review
... Perennial plants with vegetative propagule tend to have more asexual reproduction in fertile soil. Con- versely, annual and perennial plants with chasmogamy and cleistogamy tend to have more sexual ...
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Plant germline formation: common concepts and developmental flexibility in sexual and asexual reproduction
... the sexual pathway several times independently (Koltunow, 1993; Vielle- Calzada et ...for sexual reproduction is thought to have evolved as a repair mechanism for DNA damage induced by oxidative ...
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The F-Box Protein Fbp1 Regulates Sexual Reproduction and Virulence in Cryptococcus neoformans
... Cryptococcus neoformans is the leading cause of fungal meningitis in immunocomprised populations. Al- though extensive studies have been conducted on signal transduction pathways important for fungal sexual ...
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Sexual reproduction of human fungal pathogens
... of sexual fertility for Aspergillus pathogen population ...a sexual cycle has now been demonstrated in ...of sexual fertility within natural ...in sexual fertility as a step towards the ...
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Gametophyte interaction and sexual reproduction: how plants make a zygote
... the sexual reproduction cycle. Sexual plant reproduction takes place in special organs of the flower: pollen, the male gametophyte, is released from the anthers and then adheres, grows and ...
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Significance of Sexual Reproduction of Phytophthora infestans in the Czech Republic
... asexually, sexual reproduction occurs in the pathogen as it does in most oomycete species (Judelson, ...asexual reproduction (Fry et ...Moreover, sexual reproduction also provides the ...
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Consequences of Sexual Reproduction in Aspergillus flavus: Development of Approaches for the Examination of F1 Progeny.
... 81 The carcinogenic mycotoxin aflatoxin is a constant threat and economic burden to corn and oil seed crops grown within the United States and globally. Aflatoxin is produced by fungi species in Aspergillus section ...
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Switch from sexual to parthenogenetic reproduction in a zebra shark
... from reproduction between the two former individuals); four of the deceased embryos from F1 in the austral summer 2014/15 season (2015:1–4); 3 hatchlings and 1 deceased embryo from F1 in the 2015/16 season ...
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Role of an Expanded Inositol Transporter Repertoire in Cryptococcus neoformans Sexual Reproduction and Virulence
... ~25 mg/liter compared to an average concentration of 4.3 mg/liter in plasma (33). Serial analysis of gene expression (SAGE) has been applied to characterize gene expression profiles during experi- mental cryptococcal ...
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A computational lens for sexual stage transmission, reproduction, fitness and kinetics in Plasmodium falciparum
... Gametocytes are responsible for transmission of P. fal- ciparum from humans to mosquitoes, and they can successfully infect a mosquito even at sub-microscopic densities in the human host [10]. Existing models have ...
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Evolution and information
... Since it is usually the female that invests the most in reproduction, sexual selection tends to be most apparent amongst the males that compete to mate with her. If they compete successfully, the ...
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Quantum Mechanics and the Mechanism of Sexual Reproduction
... b (containing 23 chromosomes). Because each germ cell normally has 46 chromosomes, the process of fertilization can not take place until the total numbers of chromosomes in each germ cell are cut in half. It means a ...
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Levels, Time and Fitness in Evolutionary Transitions in Individuality
... In his chapter 7 Okasha (2006) deals with species selection, the paradigmatic case of MLS2 in the literature on the subject, and embraces Vrba’s ‘acid test’ (1989, 155) to distinguish true species selection (and more ...
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Role of sex and migration in adaptation to sink environments
... facultatively sexual characteristics make ...of sexual repro- ...and sexual reproduction, and to explore whether the two factors interacted to affect rates of evolutionary rescue and ...
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Branching and aggregation in self-reproducing systems
... There are two ways to obtain stable nonuniform distributions: due to bifurcations from a uniform solution or as a pulse solution. Homogeneous in space solutions can lose their stability in the case of nonlocal ...
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Timon of Ashes
... For a self-‐proclaimed misanthrope, ridiculing the very act (i.e., sexual intercourse) that is central to human biology and fuels the propagation of the species makes perfect sense. Once Timon adopts his new ...
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