Recent evolution of the human pathogen Cryptococcus neoformans by intervarietal transfer of a 14-gene fragment

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 23, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1879-1890

  Kavanaugh, Laura A ^a   Fraser, James A ^a   Dietrich, Fred S ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cryptococcus neoformans; Introgression; Parasexual; Segmental duplication; Subtelomeric; Transposons

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL DNA;

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; FORCE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE TRANSFER; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME; INTERVARIETAL GENE TRANSFER; INTROGRESSION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PREDICTION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; SYNTENY; TELOMERE;

CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; DNA, FUNGAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; GENES, FUNGAL; GENOME, FUNGAL; HUMANS; HYBRIDIZATION, GENETIC; MULTIGENE FAMILY; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

FILOBASIDIELLA NEOFORMANS; FUNGI; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 33748760343     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msl070     Document Type: Article

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