species benefit from the masking of deleterious recessive alleles in the heterokaryotic phase. In addition, all species derive the benefits of meiosis that include the removal of stress-induced DNA damages by homologous recombinational repair, and the formation of stress-resistant ascospores. References External links Fungal Genetics Stock Center Neurospora Meeting website Neurospora strains at the FGSC Neurospora genome projects Fungal Cell Biology Group at University of Edinburgh, UK. Website includes many movies and images of Neurospora. Fungal Genetics Reports Montenegro-Montero A. (2010) "The Almighty Fungi: The Revolutionary Neurospora crassa". A historical view of the many contributions of this organism to molecular biology. Neurospora crassa'' genome Sordariales Sordariomycetes genera Taxa described in 1927