Isolates of Cryptococcus neoformans from infected animals reveal genetic exchange in unisexual, α mating type populations

Eukaryotic Cell

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1771-1780

  Bui, Tien ^a   Lin, Xiaorong ^b,c   Malik, Richard ^a   Heitman, Joseph ^b   Carter, Dee ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; AUSTRALIA; CAT; CAT DISEASE; CLASSIFICATION; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; CYTOLOGY; DIPLOIDY; DOG; DOG DISEASE; FEMALE; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGUS SPORE; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY;

ANIMALS; AUSTRALIA; CAT DISEASES; CATS; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; DIPLOIDY; DOG DISEASES; DOGS; FEMALE; GENES, MATING TYPE, FUNGAL; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; REPRODUCTION, ASEXUAL; SPORES, FUNGAL;

ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CRYPTOCOCCUS GATTII; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS VAR. GRUBII; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS VAR. NEOFORMANS; FILOBASIDIELLA NEOFORMANS;

EID: 54249103240     PISSN: 15359778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/EC.00097-08     Document Type: Article

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