mating type switching

id: GO:0007533
name: mating type switching
namespace: biological_process
type: go
obsolete: False

Description: The conversion of a single-cell organism from one mating type to another by the precise replacement of a DNA sequence at the expressed mating type locus with a copy of a sequence from a donor locus.

Parent Functions

idname
GO:0006259DNA metabolic process
GO:0007531mating type determination
GO:0022413reproductive process in single-celled organism