Term Name: mating type switching
Synonyms: mating type switching and recombination
Definition: 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.
Ontology: GO: Biological Process [GO:0007533]    QuickGO    AmiGO

Relationships
has parts: donor selection gene conversion at mating-type locus mating-type locus imprinting
is a type of: mating type determination reproductive process in single-celled organism
negatively regulated by: negative regulation of mating type switching
positively regulated by: positive regulation of mating type switching
regulated by: regulation of mating type switching