Cell BiologybioRxiv
Fungal zygote survival and ploidy maintenance rely on cell cycle-dependent and independent mating blocks
A. Vjestica, M. Berard, G. Liu…·S. G. Martin
This study identifies two mechanisms in fission yeast that prevent zygotic mating and maintain ploidy: Mei2 enforcing meiosis and Mei3 driving cell cycle progression.
DOI 10.1371/journal.pbio.3001067