Diploids in the Cryptococcus neoformans serotype A population homozygous for the α mating type originate via unisexual mating

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Lin, Xiaorong ^a,b   Patel, Sweta ^a   Litvintseva, Anastasia P ^a   Floyd, Anna ^a   Mitchell, Thomas G ^a   Heitman, Joseph ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ARTICLE; ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; CELL FUSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; DIPLOIDY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FUNGUS ISOLATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE PHENOTYPE CORRELATION; HOMOZYGOSITY; MATING TYPE; MICROBIAL POPULATION DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARTHENOGENESIS; SEROTYPE; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; FUNGAL GENE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETICS; HAPLOIDY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; SEROTYPING;

CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS VAR. GRUBII; FILOBASIDIELLA NEOFORMANS; FUNGI;

BASE SEQUENCE; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; DIPLOIDY; GENES, FUNGAL; GENES, MATING TYPE, FUNGAL; HAPLOIDY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; SEROTYPING;

EID: 59249092390     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1000283     Document Type: Article

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