Ancient Dispersal of the Human Fungal Pathogen Cryptococcus gattii from the Amazon Rainforest

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Hagen, Ferry ^a,b   Ceresini, Paulo C ^c   Polacheck, Itzhack ^d   Ma, Hansong ^e,r   van Nieuwerburgh, Filip ^f   Gabaldón, Toni ^g   Kagan, Sarah ^d   Pursall, E Rhiannon ^e   Hoogveld, Hans L ^h   van Iersel, Leo J J ⁱ   Klau, Gunnar W ⁱ   Kelk, Steven M ^i,s   Stougie, Leen ^i,j   Bartlett, Karen H ^k   Voelz, Kerstin ^e   Pryszcz, Leszek P ^g   Castañeda, Elizabeth ^l   Lazera, Marcia ^m   Meyer, Wieland ⁿ   Deforce, Dieter ^f   Meis, Jacques F ^b,o   May, Robin C ^e   Klaassen, Corné H W ^b   Boekhout, Teun ^a,p,q   more..

^a CBS KNAW FUNGAL BIODIVERSITY CENTRE   (Netherlands)

^b CANISIUS WILHELMINA HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^d HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^f GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^g CENTRE FOR GENOMIC REGULATION CRG   (Spain)

^h NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

ⁱ CWI   (Netherlands)

^j VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^k UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^l INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE SALUD   (Colombia)

^m Funda??o Oswaldo Cruz   (Brazil)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^o RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^p SECOND MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^q UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^r UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^s MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFIED FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRAZIL; CLADISTICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOCOCCUS GATTII; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGAL VIRULENCE; GENE CLUSTER; GENEALOGY; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION (SPECIES); MALE; MOUSE; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION DISPERSAL; POPULATION MIGRATION; POPULATION SIZE; POPULATION STRUCTURE; STRAIN IDENTIFICATION; TEMPERATE RAIN FOREST; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

EID: 84881356342     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0071148     Document Type: Article

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