Sentences with phrase «mating cell fusion»

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The researchers used genotyping to ascertain that mating, rather than just «stickiness» or cell fusion, was occurring, confirming a change from asexual to sexual behavior.

The scientists, Nicole King and Arielle Woznica of the University of California, Berkeley, with collaborators Jon Clardy and J.P. Gerdt at Harvard Medical School in Boston, discovered that within minutes after exposure to a chonodroitin sulfate (CS) lyase produced by V. fischeri, S. rosetta cells aggregate into mass mating swarms, entering into cell and nuclear fusion while duplicating and recombining their genetic material.

«Sexual reproduction does not require males and females, all it requires is the fusion of sex cells from two different mating types.»

C. albicans is known to undergo a parasexual cycle involving heterothallic fusion of α and a mating type cells followed by stochastic, concerted loss of chromosomes [44].