Diverse organisms from fungi to animals and plants undergo sexual reproduction, the process via which genes and chromosomes are reassorted to produce diversity, enabling adaptation to constantly changing environments and enabling progeny to avoid accumulation of deleterious mutations. Sex is thus fundamental in both the origins and the success of species and is conserved throughout eukaryotes. Yet, at the level of the individual sex is one of the most risky behaviors given the increased potential for infection or predation as well as the whims of a meiotic process which involves sharing equally genetic contributions to offspring with another. Biologists have long been fascinated with the genetic, molecular, and cell biological facets that define sexual identity and drive sexual reproduction. By leveraging their special traits, such as ease of experimental manipulation and small genomes, studies on a broad range of organisms in the Fungal Kingdom have illuminated our understanding of these processes and features. The insights that have been derived from studies across this broad kingdom are the subject of this special collection of reviews to be published in Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews (MMBR).

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MMBR关于真菌性行为的特别收藏：分子机制和进化意义

从真菌到动物和植物的各种生物都经历有性繁殖，基因和染色体通过这一过程重新组合以产生多样性，从而能够适应不断变化的环境，并使后代能够避免有害突变的积累。因此，性别对于物种的起源和成功都是至关重要的，并且在整个真核生物中都是保守的。然而，鉴于感染或捕食的可能性增加以及减数分裂过程的突发奇想，其中涉及与另一个人平等分享对后代的遗传贡献，在个体层面上，性别是最危险的行为之一。长期以来，生物学家一直对定义性身份和驱动有性生殖的遗传、分子和细胞生物学方面着迷。通过利用他们的特殊性，例如易于实验操作和小基因组，对真菌王国广泛生物的研究阐明了我们对这些过程和特征的理解。从这个广阔王国的研究中得出的见解是这一特殊评论集的主题，该评论集将发表在微生物学和分子生物学评论 (MMBR) 上。