Comparative analysis of the intergenic spacer regions and population structure of the species complex of the pathogenic yeast Cryptococcus neoformans

FEMS Yeast Research

Volumn 5, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 1129-1140

  Diaz, Mara R ^a   Boekhout, Teun ^b   Kiesling, Traci ^a,c   Fell, Jack W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^b CBS KNAW FUNGAL BIODIVERSITY CENTRE   (Netherlands)

^c GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cryptococcus neoformans; Intergenic spacer (IGS); Length polymorphism; Repeated motifs; Yeast

Indexed keywords

SPACER DNA;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CRYPTOCOCCUS; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; GENE DELETION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE INSERTION; GENE ISOLATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; INTERSPECIFIC RELATIONSHIP; MICROBIAL POPULATION DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN MOTIF; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ALLELES; CHROMOSOMES, FUNGAL; CRYPTOCOCCUS; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA, FUNGAL; DNA, INTERGENIC; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; GENOTYPE; INTERSPERSED REPETITIVE SEQUENCES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POINT MUTATION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 5S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE DELETION;

CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS VAR. GRUBII; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS VAR. NEOFORMANS; FILOBASIDIELLA NEOFORMANS;

EID: 27744502920     PISSN: 15671356     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.femsyr.2005.05.005     Document Type: Article

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