Unisexual and Heterosexual Meiotic Reproduction Generate Aneuploidy and Phenotypic Diversity De Novo in the Yeast Cryptococcus neoformans

PLoS Biology

Volumn 11, Issue 9, 2013, Pages

  Ni, Min ^a,c   Feretzaki, Marianna ^a   Li, Wenjun ^a,d   Floyd Averette, Anna ^a   Mieczkowski, Piotr ^b   Dietrich, Fred S ^a   Heitman, Joseph ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c REGENERON PHARMACEUTICALS INC   (United States)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANEUPLOIDY; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME SIZE; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; CRYPTOCOCCUS GRUBII; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; DIPLOIDY; FUNGAL GENETICS; FUNGAL GENOME; FUNGAL STRAIN; GENOTYPE; HETEROSEXUAL REPRODUCTION; MEIOSIS; NONHUMAN; PARTHENOGENESIS; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PROGENY; REPRODUCTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ANEUPLOIDY; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; DRUG RESISTANCE, FUNGAL; FLUCONAZOLE; GENES, MATING TYPE, FUNGAL; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; MEIOSIS; MENINGOENCEPHALITIS; PHENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; REPRODUCTION, ASEXUAL;

EID: 84884541941     PISSN: 15449173     EISSN: 15457885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1001653     Document Type: Article

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