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Sexual reproduction accelerates adaptation and removed deleterious mutations, figuring significantly in the question of whether a species is to survive. The contributors of these 32 articles are of course well aware of this, and take it several steps farther, showing how research in this are leads to paradigms for how organisms establish cell identity and maintain it, how they sense and respond to extracellular cells, how they figure in genetic rearrangements in generating changes in cell identity and fate,, and how genomics regions governing sexual identity evolve and get organized. They start with general principles of mating and cell identity, then move to ascomycetes as model yeasts and pathogens for humans and plants, the Candida MAT locus, the role of the mushrooms, plant and animal pathogenic yeasts, zygomycetes and other frontiers of knowledge, and the implications of sex. Annotation c2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
