Unisexual Reproduction Drives Meiotic Recombination and Phenotypic and Karyotypic Plasticity in Cryptococcus neoformans

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 10, Issue 12, 2014, Pages

  Sun, Sheng ^a   Billmyre, R Blake ^a   Mieczkowski, Piotr A ^b   Heitman, Joseph ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA; FUNGAL DNA; GENETIC MARKER;

ALLELE; ANEUPLOIDY; ARTICLE; BISEXUALITY; CHROMOSOMAL LOCALIZATION; CHROMOSOME 4; CHROMOSOME DUPLICATION; CHROMOSOME LOSS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSING OVER; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; DIPLOIDY; FLUORESCENCE ACTIVATED CELL SORTING; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGAL GENOME; FUNGAL STRAIN; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC MARKER; HETEROZYGOSITY LOSS; INHERITANCE; KARYOTYPE EVOLUTION; MAT GENE; MATING; MEIOTIC RECOMBINATION; NONHUMAN; PARTHENOGENESIS; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PROGENY; ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CHROMOSOME; CHROMOSOME MAP; CYTOLOGY; GENETICS; GENOMICS; GENOTYPING TECHNIQUE; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; KARYOTYPE; MEIOSIS; PHENOTYPE;

CANDIDA ALBICANS; FILOBASIDIELLA NEOFORMANS; FUNGI;

ALLELES; ANEUPLOIDY; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, FUNGAL; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; DNA, FUNGAL; GENETIC LOCI; GENETIC MARKERS; GENOMICS; GENOTYPING TECHNIQUES; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; KARYOTYPE; MEIOSIS; PHENOTYPE; REPRODUCTION, ASEXUAL;

EID: 84919624856     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1004849     Document Type: Article

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