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Abstract

Asexual fruiting body development in requires a precise spatial and temporal coordinated expression of many genes. Insertional mutagenesis was used to isolate and characterize a new mutant of in which hyphal growth was slightly reduced and conidiophore development was specifically blocked at the metula stage. In contrast to the uninucleate metulae of the wild-type, in the mutant these structures were elongated, multinucleate and septate. Further differentiation and production of phialides by a budding-like process was not observed. The mutant metulae thus resembled hyphae rather than metulae and the gene was therefore named hypha-like metulae (). The gene was mapped to linkage group VI. The integrated vector was rescued with border sequences from the integration site. The border sequences were used to isolate a cosmid from a wild-type library which was subcloned to a 5 kb fragment able to complement the mutation This fragment encoded a 1·8 kb transcript expressed in hyphae and throughout development. It is proposed that is involved in budding processes, and is required for the formation of metulae and for their further differentiation.

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