Long-distance dispersal and recombination in environmental populations of Cryptococcus neofarmans var. grubii from India

Microbiology

Volumn 154, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1513-1524

  Hiremath, Sanjay S ^a   Chowdhary, Anuradha ^b   Kowshik, Tusharantak ^b   Randhawa, Harbans S ^b   Sun, Sheng ^a   Xu, Jianping ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELHI   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLONAL VARIATION; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; DISPERSION; ECOLOGICAL NICHE; FUNGAL COLONIZATION; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGUS ISOLATION; FUNGUS TRANSMISSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; INDIA; MATING TYPE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POPULATION GENETICS; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREE; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; WOOD; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA SEQUENCE; FUNGAL GENE; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS;

CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS VAR. GRUBII; FILOBASIDIELLA NEOFORMANS;

FUNGAL DNA;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; DNA, FUNGAL; GENES, MATING TYPE, FUNGAL; GENOTYPE; INDIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYCOLOGICAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; WOOD;

EID: 46249084738     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.2007/015594-0     Document Type: Article

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