Supporting information of genome biology and evolution of mating type loci in four cereal rust fungi

Sex in animals and some plants is determined by sex chromosomes. In fungi, mate compatibility is determined by mating type (MAT) loci, which share some features with sex chromosomes including recombination suppression around heterozygous loci. Here, we study the MAT loci in fungal pathogens from the order Pucciniales, which cause rust diseases on many economically important plants, including wheat and oats. We show that one of the MAT loci is multiallelic, while the other is biallelic in most cases. The biallelic locus shows strong signs of recombination suppression and genetic deterioration with an increase in the number of transposable elements and gene deserts surrounding the locus. Our findings on the genome biology of MAT loci in four economically important pathogens will improve predictions on potential novel virulent isolates that can lead to large-scale pandemics in agriculture.
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## Description of the data and file structure

\##DATA & FILE OVERVIEW

1\. Structure of the folder

`├── Alignments`

`│   ├── Alignments for Fig 1 Fig 2 S3Fig S4Fig`

`│   ├── Alignments for S22Fig S23Fig`

`│   ├── Au-test`

`│   └── Cds of HD alleles for S21 Fig`

`├── Other supporting data`

`│   ├── Beast2`

`│   ├── Major TE compositions of MAT locus (4 Pt isolates).xlsx`

`│   ├── Major TE compositions of MAT locus (4 cereal rust species).xlsx`

`│   ├── RNA Analysis `

`│   ├── RDP5 output`

`│   ├── Repeat Classification`

`│   └── ds value table.xlsx`

`└── README.txt`

Abbreviations:

Pca - *Puccinia coronata* f. sp. *avenae*

Pgt - *Puccinia graminis* f. sp. *tritici*

Pt - *Puccinia triticina*

Pst - *Puccinia striiformis* f. sp. *tritici*

HD - Homeodomain transcription factor genes

PR - Pheromone receptor

Pra - Pheromone receptor genes (including *STE3.2-2* and...