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Unexpected Genomic Variability in Clinical and Environmental Strains of the Pathogenic Yeast Candida parapsilosis
Invasive candidiasis is the most commonly reported invasive fungal infection worldwide. Although Candida albicans remains the main cause, the incidence of emerging Candida species, such as C. parapsilosis is increasing. It has been postulated that C. parapsilosis clinical isolates result from a rece...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3879973/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24259314 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evt185 |
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author | Pryszcz, Leszek P. Németh, Tibor Gácser, Attila Gabaldón, Toni |
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description | Invasive candidiasis is the most commonly reported invasive fungal infection worldwide. Although Candida albicans remains the main cause, the incidence of emerging Candida species, such as C. parapsilosis is increasing. It has been postulated that C. parapsilosis clinical isolates result from a recent global expansion of a virulent clone. However, the availability of a single genome for this species has so far prevented testing this hypothesis at genomic scales. We present here the sequence of three additional strains from clinical and environmental samples. Our analyses reveal unexpected patterns of genomic variation, shared among distant strains, that argue against the clonal expansion hypothesis. All strains carry independent expansions involving an arsenite transporter homolog, pointing to the existence of directional selection in the environment, and independent origins of the two clinical isolates. Furthermore, we report the first evidence for the existence of recombination in this species. Altogether, our results shed new light onto the dynamics of genome evolution in C. parapsilosis. |
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spelling | pubmed-38799732014-01-03 Unexpected Genomic Variability in Clinical and Environmental Strains of the Pathogenic Yeast Candida parapsilosis Pryszcz, Leszek P. Németh, Tibor Gácser, Attila Gabaldón, Toni Genome Biol Evol Research Article Invasive candidiasis is the most commonly reported invasive fungal infection worldwide. Although Candida albicans remains the main cause, the incidence of emerging Candida species, such as C. parapsilosis is increasing. It has been postulated that C. parapsilosis clinical isolates result from a recent global expansion of a virulent clone. However, the availability of a single genome for this species has so far prevented testing this hypothesis at genomic scales. We present here the sequence of three additional strains from clinical and environmental samples. Our analyses reveal unexpected patterns of genomic variation, shared among distant strains, that argue against the clonal expansion hypothesis. All strains carry independent expansions involving an arsenite transporter homolog, pointing to the existence of directional selection in the environment, and independent origins of the two clinical isolates. Furthermore, we report the first evidence for the existence of recombination in this species. Altogether, our results shed new light onto the dynamics of genome evolution in C. parapsilosis. Oxford University Press 2013 2013-11-20 /pmc/articles/PMC3879973/ /pubmed/24259314 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evt185 Text en © The Author(s) 2013. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Pryszcz, Leszek P. Németh, Tibor Gácser, Attila Gabaldón, Toni Unexpected Genomic Variability in Clinical and Environmental Strains of the Pathogenic Yeast Candida parapsilosis |
title | Unexpected Genomic Variability in Clinical and Environmental Strains of the Pathogenic Yeast Candida parapsilosis |
title_full | Unexpected Genomic Variability in Clinical and Environmental Strains of the Pathogenic Yeast Candida parapsilosis |
title_fullStr | Unexpected Genomic Variability in Clinical and Environmental Strains of the Pathogenic Yeast Candida parapsilosis |
title_full_unstemmed | Unexpected Genomic Variability in Clinical and Environmental Strains of the Pathogenic Yeast Candida parapsilosis |
title_short | Unexpected Genomic Variability in Clinical and Environmental Strains of the Pathogenic Yeast Candida parapsilosis |
title_sort | unexpected genomic variability in clinical and environmental strains of the pathogenic yeast candida parapsilosis |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3879973/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24259314 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evt185 |
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