Sex in Cheese: Evidence for Sexuality in the Fungus Penicillium roqueforti

Jeanne Ropars; Joëlle Dupont; Eric Fontanillas; Ricardo C. Rodríguez de la Vega; Fabienne Malagnac; Monika Coton; Tatiana Giraud; Manuela López-Villavicencio

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0049665

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Sex in Cheese: Evidence for Sexuality in the Fungus Penicillium roqueforti

Jeanne Ropars ,

* E-mail: jropars@mnhn.fr

Affiliation Department Systématique et Evolution, Origine, Structure, Evolution de la Biodiversité, UMR 7205 CNRS-MNHN, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France
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Joëlle Dupont,

Affiliation Department Systématique et Evolution, Origine, Structure, Evolution de la Biodiversité, UMR 7205 CNRS-MNHN, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France
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Eric Fontanillas,

Affiliation Ecologie, Systématique et Evolution, Université Paris-Sud, Orsay, France
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Ricardo C. Rodríguez de la Vega,

Affiliation Ecologie, Systématique et Evolution, Université Paris-Sud, Orsay, France
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Fabienne Malagnac,

Affiliations Université Paris-Sud, Institut de Génétique et Microbiologie, UMR 8621, Orsay, France, Université Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cité, UFR des Sciences du Vivant, Paris, France
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Monika Coton,

Affiliation Université de Brest, UEB, Laboratoire Universitaire de Biodiversité et d’Ecologie Microbienne EA 3882, IFR148 SFR ScInBioS, ESMISAB, Technopôle Brest-Iroise, Plouzané, France
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Tatiana Giraud,

Affiliation Ecologie, Systématique et Evolution, Université Paris-Sud, Orsay, France
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Manuela López-Villavicencio

Affiliation Department Systématique et Evolution, Origine, Structure, Evolution de la Biodiversité, UMR 7205 CNRS-MNHN, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France
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Sex in Cheese: Evidence for Sexuality in the Fungus Penicillium roqueforti

Jeanne Ropars,
Joëlle Dupont,
Eric Fontanillas,
Ricardo C. Rodríguez de la Vega,
Fabienne Malagnac,
Monika Coton,
Tatiana Giraud,
Manuela López-Villavicencio

Published: November 21, 2012
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0049665

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The Acknowledgements section was omitted from the article.

The Acknowledgements section is: We thank John Taylor for useful comments in a previous version of this paper. We thank Sandrine Lacoste for helping in molecular experiments. We also thank an anonymous referee for the prize of the best tree ever (not shown).

No competing interests declared.

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