The Dynamic Genome and Transcriptome of the Human Fungal Pathogen Blastomyces and Close Relative Emmonsia

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 11, Issue 10, 2015, Pages

  Muñoz, José F ^a,b   Gauthier, Gregory M ^c   Desjardins, Christopher A ^d   Gallo, Juan E ^a,e   Holder, Jason ^d   Sullivan, Thomas D ^c   Marty, Amber J ^c   Carmen, John C ^c,j   Chen, Zehua ^d   Ding, Li ^f   Gujja, Sharvari ^d   Magrini, Vincent ^f   Misas, Elizabeth ^a,b   Mitreva, Makedonka ^f   Priest, Margaret ^d   Saif, Sakina ^d   Whiston, Emily A ^g   Young, Sarah ^d   Zeng, Qiandong ^d   Goldman, William E ^h   Mardis, Elaine R ^f   Taylor, John W ^g   McEwen, Juan G ^a,b   Clay, Oliver K ^a,e   Klein, Bruce S ^c,i   Cuomo, Christina A ^d   more..

^a Unidad de Biología Celular y Molecular   (Colombia)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE ANTIOQUIA   (Colombia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

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

^e UNIVERSIDAD DEL ROSARIO   (Colombia)

^f WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^j NORTHERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTOME;

AJELLOMYCES DERMATITIDIS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BLASTOMYCES; BLASTOMYCES GILCHRISTII; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPY NUMBER VARIATION; EMMONSIA; EMMONSIA CRESCENS; EMMONSIA PARVA; FUNGAL VIRULENCE; FUNGUS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCATION; GENE LOSS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENOME SIZE; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; UPREGULATION; ANIMAL; BLASTOMYCOSIS; CHRYSOSPORIUM; FUNGAL GENOME; GENETICS; HISTOPLASMOSIS; MACROPHAGE; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; SOUTH AMERICAN BLASTOMYCOSIS;

ANIMALS; BLASTOMYCES; BLASTOMYCOSIS; CHRYSOSPORIUM; GENOME, FUNGAL; HISTOPLASMOSIS; HUMANS; MACROPHAGES; MICE; PARACOCCIDIOIDOMYCOSIS; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84946606588     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1005493     Document Type: Article

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