Comparative hybridization reveals extensive genome variation in the AIDS-associated pathogen Cryptococcus neoformans

Genome Biology

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2008, Pages

  Hu, Guanggan ^a   Liu, Iris ^a   Sham, Anita ^a   Stajich, Jason E ^b,c   Dietrich, Fred S ^b   Kronstad, James W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 1; CHROMOSOME 13; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; DIPLOIDY; DISOMY; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGAL GENETICS; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGUS ISOLATION; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE DELETION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HAPLOIDY; MATING TYPE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SEROTYPE; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; CHROMOSOME; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; GENETICS; GENOME; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; PATHOGENICITY; VIRULENCE;

FILOBASIDIELLA NEOFORMANS;

ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; CHROMOSOMES, FUNGAL; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; GENOME, FUNGAL; HUMANS; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; VARIATION (GENETICS); VIRULENCE;

EID: 43549104936     PISSN: 14747596     EISSN: 1474760X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/gb-2008-9-2-r41     Document Type: Article

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