Discovery of a modified tetrapolar sexual cycle in Cryptococcus amylolentus and the evolution of MAT in the Cryptococcus species complex

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Findley, Keisha ^a,b   Sun, Sheng ^b   Fraser, James A ^c   Hsueh, Yen Ping ^d   Averette, Anna Floyd ^b   Li, Wenjun ^b   Dietrich, Fred S ^b   Heitman, Joseph ^b  

^a NATIONAL HUMAN GENOME RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^d CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHEROMONE;

ARTICLE; BASIDIOSPORE; CRYPTOCOCCUS; CRYPTOCOCCUS AMYLOLENTUS; CRYPTOCOCCUS GATTII; CRYPTOCOCCUS HEVEANENSIS; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; EXTRACHROMOSOMAL INHERITANCE; FERTILITY; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGUS HYPHAE; GENE LOCUS; GENOTYPE; HOMEODOMAIN GENE; INBREEDING; MATING TYPE; MEIOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OUTCROSSING; PHEROMONE RECEPTOR GENE; PROGENY; RECEPTOR GENE; REPRODUCTION; SEX DETERMINATION; SPECIES COMPARISON; TETRAPOLAR SEXUAL CYCLE; TSUCHIYAEA WINGFIELDII;

BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CRYPTOCOCCUS; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENES, MATING TYPE, FUNGAL; RECEPTORS, PHEROMONE; SPORES, FUNGAL;

ANIMALIA; CRYPTOCOCCUS AMYLOLENTUS; CRYPTOCOCCUS GATTII; CRYPTOCOCCUS HEVEANENSIS; FILOBASIDIELLA NEOFORMANS; FUNGI; TSUCHIYAEA WINGFIELDII;

EID: 84859208229     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1002528     Document Type: Article

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