Multigene assessment of the species boundaries and sexual status of the basidiomycetous yeasts Cryptococcus flavescens and C. terrestris (Tremellales)

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Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2015, Pages

  Yurkov, Andrey ^a   Guerreiro, Marco A ^b,c   Sharma, Lav ^b,d   Carvalho, Cláudia ^b   Fonseca, Álvaro ^b  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE DSMZ GERMAN COLLECTION OF MICROORGANISMS AND CELL CULTURES   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSIDADE NOVA DE LISBOA   (Portugal)

^c RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TRÁS OS MONTES AND ALTO DOURO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELONGATION FACTOR 1ALPHA; INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER; P21 ACTIVATED KINASE; PHEROMONE; PROTEIN IGS1; PROTEIN RPB1; PROTEIN STE20; PROTEIN TEF1; RIBOSOME DNA; RNA POLYMERASE II; SPACER DNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; BASIDIOMYCETES; CRYPTOCOCCUS; CRYPTOCOCCUS BAII; CRYPTOCOCCUS FLAVESCENS; CRYPTOCOCCUS RUINENIAE; CRYPTOCOCCUS TERRESTRIS; DNA FRAGMENTATION; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGAL MATING TYPE GENE; FUNGAL STRAIN; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC SIMILARITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; MATING SYSTEM; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; REPRODUCTION; SEXUALITY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; STE3 GENE; SXI1 GENE; SXI2 GENE; TREMELLALES; YEAST; CLASSIFICATION; FILOBASIDIELLA; GENETICS;

BASIDIOMYCOTA; CRYPTOCOCCUS (TREMELLALES); CRYPTOCOCCUS (TREMELLOMYCETIDAE); CRYPTOCOCCUS (TRICHOSPORONALES); CRYPTOCOCCUS FLAVESCENS; CRYPTOCOCCUS LAURENTII; TREMELLALES;

CRYPTOCOCCUS; GENES, MATING TYPE, FUNGAL; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; PHYLOGENY; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC;

EID: 84926171291     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0120400     Document Type: Article

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