Highly recombinant VGII Cryptococcus gattii population develops clonal outbreak clusters through both sexual macroevolution and asexual microevolution

mBio

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1-16

  Blake Billmyre, R ^a   Croll, Daniel ^b   Li, Wenjun ^a   Mieczkowski, Piotr ^c   Carter, Dee A ^d   Cuomo, Christina A ^e   Kronstad, James W ^b   Heitman, Joseph ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

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

^d UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^e BROAD INSTITUTE OF MIT AND HARVARD   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ALLELE; ARTICLE; ASEXUAL MICROEVOLUTION; AUSTRALIA; CRYPTOCOCCUS GATTII; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; FUNGAL GENOME; FUNGAL VIRULENCE; FUNGUS ISOLATION; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOMIC ISLAND; HAPLOTYPE; INTROGRESSION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PHYLOGENY; REPRODUCTION; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SEXUAL MACROEVOLUTION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SOUTH AMERICA; EPIDEMIC; GENETICS; PATHOGENICITY; VIRULENCE;

CRYPTOCOCCUS GATTII;

CRYPTOCOCCUS GATTII; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HAPLOTYPES; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; VIRULENCE;

EID: 84907784658     PISSN: 21612129     EISSN: 21507511     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/mBio.01494-14     Document Type: Article

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