Cloning of the mating type loci from Pyrenopeziza brassicae reveals the presence of a novel mating type gene within a discomycete MAT 1‐2 locus encoding a putative metallothionein‐like protein

This article was published in Mol Microbiol (1998) 30: 799–806. In order to move the fungal mating type field towards a standard nomenclature, as suggested by Arie et al. (1997), the mating type designations for Pyrenopeziza brassicae have been reversed. The MAT 1-1 locus described by Singh and Ashby (1998), which was based on the genetic nomenclature proposed by Courtice and Ingram (1987), becomes MAT-2 (EMBL AJ006072). As a consequence the PHB1 gene, encoding the HMG protein, becomes PHB2 and vice versa. The MAT 1-2 locus described by Singh and Ashby (1998) becomes MAT-1 (EMBL AJ006073) and encodes three genes designated PAD1, PMT1 and PHB1.