The Transcription Factor Rbf1 Is the Master Regulator for b-Mating Type Controlled Pathogenic Development in Ustilago maydis

• Kai Heimel ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Kai Heimel, Mario Scherer

  Affiliations Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute for Applied Biosciences, Department of Genetics, Karlsruhe, Germany, MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology, Department for Organismic Interactions, Marburg, Germany

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• Mario Scherer ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Kai Heimel, Mario Scherer

  Affiliations MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology, Department for Organismic Interactions, Marburg, Germany, Qiagen GmbH, Hilden, Germany

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• Miroslav Vranes,

  Affiliations Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute for Applied Biosciences, Department of Genetics, Karlsruhe, Germany, MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology, Department for Organismic Interactions, Marburg, Germany

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• Ramon Wahl,

  Affiliations Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute for Applied Biosciences, Department of Genetics, Karlsruhe, Germany, MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology, Department for Organismic Interactions, Marburg, Germany

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• Chetsada Pothiratana,

  Affiliations MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology, Department for Organismic Interactions, Marburg, Germany, Kasetsart University, Department of Microbiology, Bangkok, Thailand

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• David Schuler,

  Affiliation Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute for Applied Biosciences, Department of Genetics, Karlsruhe, Germany

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• Volker Vincon,

  Affiliation MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology, Department for Organismic Interactions, Marburg, Germany

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• Florian Finkernagel,

  Affiliation Institute for Molecular Biology and Tumor Research, Marburg, Germany

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• Ignacio Flor-Parra,

  Affiliation Centro Andaluz de Biología del Desarrollo, Universidad Pablo de Olavide-Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Sevilla, Spain

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• Jörg Kämper

  * E-mail: joerg.kaemper@kit.edu

  Affiliations Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute for Applied Biosciences, Department of Genetics, Karlsruhe, Germany, MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology, Department for Organismic Interactions, Marburg, Germany

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