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Morphotype Transition and Sexual Reproduction Are Genetically Associated in a Ubiquitous Environmental Pathogen

Sexual reproduction in an environmental pathogen helps maximize its lineage fitness to changing environment and the host. For the fungal pathogen Cryptococcus neoformans, sexual reproduction is proposed to have yielded hyper virulent and drug resistant variants. The life cycle of this pathogen comme...

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Autores principales: Wang, Linqi, Tian, Xiuyun, Gyawali, Rachana, Upadhyay, Srijana, Foyle, Dylan, Wang, Gang, Cai, James J., Lin, Xiaorong
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4047104/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24901238
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1004185