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For its fascinating sex life, of course! The German mycologist Hans Kniep (1930) was the first to discover that the wood-rotting basidiomycete, Schizophyllum commune, recombines its genome regularly and propagates effectively by consorting with any one of many compatible mates through a system known as tetrapolar sexuality, a term describing the meiotic segregation of four different mating types.
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How to Cite: Raper, C. A. & Fowler, T. J. (2004) “Why Study Schizophyllum?”, Fungal Genetics Reports. 51(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.4148/1941-4765.1142