Identification of genomic differences between Cryptococcus neoformans and Cryptococcus gattii by Representational Difference Analysis (RDA)

Medical Mycology

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 584-591

  Faganello, Josiane ^a   Dutra, Valéria ^b   Schrank, Augusto ^a   Meyer, Wieland ^c   Schrank, Irene S ^a   Vainstein, Marilene H ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MATO GROSSO   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cryptococcus gattii; Cryptococcus neoformans; Genome; Polymorphism; Representational Difference Analysis

Indexed keywords

CELL PROTEIN; CHITIN SYNTHASE; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM PROTEIN; FUNGAL DNA; INSULINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CLONE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; CRYPTOCOCCUS; CRYPTOCOCCUS GATTII; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; DNA ISOLATION; FUNGAL GENOME; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGUS ISOLATION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC DIFFERENCE; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENOMICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPRESENTATIONAL DIFFERENCE ANALYSIS; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; YEAST;

BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; CRYPTOCOCCUS GATTII; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; GENOME, FUNGAL; GENOMICS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

CRYPTOCOCCUS GATTII; FILOBASIDIELLA NEOFORMANS;

EID: 70849122700     PISSN: 13693786     EISSN: 14602709     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13693780802272148     Document Type: Article

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