Genomic correlates of virulence attenuation in the deadly amphibian chytrid fungus, Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis

G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics

Volumn 5, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 2291-2298

  Refsnider, Jeanine M ^a   Poorten, Thomas J ^a   Langhammer, Penny F ^b   Burrowes, Patricia A ^c   Rosenblum, Erica Bree ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO   (Puerto Rico)

Author keywords

Chromosome copy number; Chytridiomycosis; Emerging infectious disease; Gene expression; Loss of heterozygosity

Indexed keywords

ANURA; ARTICLE; BATRACHOCHYTRIUM DENDROBATIDIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPY NUMBER VARIATION; FUNGAL ATTENUATION; FUNGAL PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS; FUNGAL VIRULENCE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENOMICS; HETEROZYGOSITY LOSS; INDEL MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; CHROMOSOME; CHROMOSOME DUPLICATION; CHYTRIDIOMYCETES; FUNGAL GENE; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PATHOGENICITY; VIRULENCE;

CHROMOSOME DUPLICATION; CHROMOSOMES, FUNGAL; CHYTRIDIOMYCOTA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, FUNGAL; VIRULENCE;

EID: 84947461519     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21601836     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/g3.115.021808     Document Type: Article

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