Evidence that the human pathogenic fungus Cryptococcus neoformans var. grubii may have evolved in Africa

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Litvintseva, Anastasia P ^a   Carbone, Ignazio ^b   Rossouw, Jenny ^c   Thakur, Rameshwari ^d   Govender, Nelesh P ^c   Mitchell, Thomas G ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR COMMUNICABLE DISEASES   (South Africa)

^d Department of HIV AIDS Prevention and Care   (Botswana)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ARBOREAL SPECIES; ARTICLE; BARK; BOTSWANA; COLOPHOSPERMUM MOPANE; COLUMBA LIVIA; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS VARIETY GRUBII; DNA SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION; FECES; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPE; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PIGEON; POPULATION DISPERSAL; POPULATION GENETIC STRUCTURE; SOUTH AFRICA; TREE; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; CLASSIFICATION; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PATHOGENICITY;

AVES; COLOPHOSPERMUM MOPANE; COLUMBA; COLUMBA LIVIA; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS VAR. GRUBII; FUNGI; MAMMALIA;

FUNGAL DNA;

CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; DNA, FUNGAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC;

EID: 79955912805     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0019688     Document Type: Article

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