Anastasia P. Litvintseva

αADα Hybrids of Cryptococcus neoformans: Evidence of Same-Sex Mating in Nature and Hybrid Fitness (2007)

Xiaorong Lin, Anastasia P. Litvintseva, Kirsten Nielsen, Sweta Patel, Anna Floyd, Thomas G. Mitchell, ...

Cryptococcus neoformans is a ubiquitous human fungal pathogen that causes meningoencephalitis in predominantly immunocompromised hosts. The fungus is typically haploid, and sexual reproduction...

Many Globally Isolated AD Hybrid Strains of Cryptococcus neoformans Originated in Africa (2007)

Anastasia P. Litvintseva, Xiaorong Lin, Irka Templeton, Joseph Heitman, Thomas G. Mitchell

Interspecific and intervarietal hybridization may contribute to the biological diversity of fungal populations. Cryptococcus neoformans is a pathogenic yeast and the most common fungal cause of...

Cloning, Characterization, and Transcription of Three Laccase Genes from Gaeumannomyces graminis var. tritici, the Take-All Fungus

Litvintseva, Anastasia P., Henson, Joan M.

Gaeumannomyces graminis var. tritici, a filamentous ascomycete, is an important root pathogen of cereals that causes take-all disease and results in severe crop losses worldwide. Previously we...

Evidence of Sexual Recombination among Cryptococcus neoformans Serotype A Isolates in Sub-Saharan Africa†

Litvintseva, Anastasia P., Marra, Robert E., Nielsen, Kirsten, Heitman, Joseph, Vilgalys, Rytas, Mitchell, Thomas G.

The most common cause of fungal meningitis in humans, Cryptococcus neoformans serotype A, is a basidiomycetous yeast with a bipolar mating system. However, the vast majority (>99.9%) of C. neoformans...

Comparative Analysis of Environmental and Clinical Populations of Cryptococcus neoformans

Litvintseva, Anastasia P., Kestenbaum, Lori, Vilgalys, Rytas, Mitchell, Thomas G.

Cryptococcus neoformans is a major, global cause of meningoencephalitis in immunocompromised patients. Despite advances in the molecular epidemiology of C. neoformans, its population structure and...

Cryptococcus neoformans α Strains Preferentially Disseminate to the Central Nervous System during Coinfection

Nielsen, Kirsten, Cox, Gary M., Litvintseva, Anastasia P., Mylonakis, Eleftherios, Malliaris, Stephanie D., Benjamin, Daniel K., ...

Cryptococcus neoformans is a fungal pathogen that has evolved over the past 40 million years into three distinct varieties or sibling species (gattii, grubii, and neoformans). Each variety manifests...

Multilocus Sequence Typing Reveals Three Genetic Subpopulations of Cryptococcus neoformans var. grubii (Serotype A), Including a Unique Population in Botswana

Litvintseva, Anastasia P., Thakur, Rameshwari, Vilgalys, Rytas, Mitchell, Thomas G.

We applied multilocus sequence typing (MLST) to investigate the population structure and mode of reproduction of Cryptococcus neoformans var. grubii (serotype A). This MLST system utilizes 12...

Cloning, Characterization, and Transcription of Three Laccase Genes from Gaeumannomyces graminis var. tritici, the Take-All Fungus

Litvintseva, Anastasia P., Henson, Joan M.

Gaeumannomyces graminis var. tritici, a filamentous ascomycete, is an important root pathogen of cereals that causes take-all disease and results in severe crop losses worldwide. Previously we...

Evidence of Sexual Recombination among Cryptococcus neoformans Serotype A Isolates in Sub-Saharan Africa†

Litvintseva, Anastasia P., Marra, Robert E., Nielsen, Kirsten, Heitman, Joseph, Vilgalys, Rytas, Mitchell, Thomas G.

The most common cause of fungal meningitis in humans, Cryptococcus neoformans serotype A, is a basidiomycetous yeast with a bipolar mating system. However, the vast majority (>99.9%) of C. neoformans...

Comparative Analysis of Environmental and Clinical Populations of Cryptococcus neoformans

Litvintseva, Anastasia P., Kestenbaum, Lori, Vilgalys, Rytas, Mitchell, Thomas G.

Cryptococcus neoformans is a major, global cause of meningoencephalitis in immunocompromised patients. Despite advances in the molecular epidemiology of C. neoformans, its population structure and...

Cryptococcus neoformans α Strains Preferentially Disseminate to the Central Nervous System during Coinfection

Nielsen, Kirsten, Cox, Gary M., Litvintseva, Anastasia P., Mylonakis, Eleftherios, Malliaris, Stephanie D., Benjamin, Daniel K., ...

Cryptococcus neoformans is a fungal pathogen that has evolved over the past 40 million years into three distinct varieties or sibling species (gattii, grubii, and neoformans). Each variety manifests...

Multilocus Sequence Typing Reveals Three Genetic Subpopulations of Cryptococcus neoformans var. grubii (Serotype A), Including a Unique Population in Botswana

Litvintseva, Anastasia P., Thakur, Rameshwari, Vilgalys, Rytas, Mitchell, Thomas G.

We applied multilocus sequence typing (MLST) to investigate the population structure and mode of reproduction of Cryptococcus neoformans var. grubii (serotype A). This MLST system utilizes 12...

Many Globally Isolated AD Hybrid Strains of Cryptococcus neoformans Originated in Africa

Litvintseva, Anastasia P, Lin, Xiaorong, Templeton, Irka, Heitman, Joseph, Mitchell, Thomas G

Interspecific and intervarietal hybridization may contribute to the biological diversity of fungal populations. Cryptococcus neoformans is a pathogenic yeast and the most common fungal cause of...

αADα Hybrids of Cryptococcus neoformans: Evidence of Same-Sex Mating in Nature and Hybrid Fitness

Lin, Xiaorong, Litvintseva, Anastasia P, Nielsen, Kirsten, Patel, Sweta, Floyd, Anna, Mitchell, Thomas G, ...

Cryptococcus neoformans is a ubiquitous human fungal pathogen that causes meningoencephalitis in predominantly immunocompromised hosts. The fungus is typically haploid, and sexual reproduction...

Diploids in the Cryptococcus neoformans Serotype A Population Homozygous for the α Mating Type Originate via Unisexual Mating

Lin, Xiaorong, Patel, Sweta, Litvintseva, Anastasia P., Floyd, Anna, Mitchell, Thomas G., Heitman, Joseph

The ubiquitous environmental human pathogen Cryptococcus neoformans is traditionally considered a haploid fungus with a bipolar mating system. In nature, the α mating type is overwhelmingly...

Rapid Global Expansion of the Fungal Disease Chytridiomycosis into Declining and Healthy Amphibian Populations

James, Timothy Y., Litvintseva, Anastasia P., Vilgalys, Rytas, Morgan, Jess A. T., Taylor, John W., Fisher, Matthew C., ...

The fungal disease chytridiomycosis, caused by Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis, is enigmatic because it occurs globally in both declining and apparently healthy (non-declining) amphibian populations....

Genetic Diversity of the Cryptococcus Species Complex Suggests that Cryptococcus gattii Deserves to Have Varieties

Ngamskulrungroj, Popchai, Gilgado, Felix, Faganello, Josiane, Litvintseva, Anastasia P., Leal, Ana Lusia, Tsui, Kin Ming, ...

The Cryptococcus species complex contains two sibling taxa, Cryptococcus neoformans and Cryptococcus gattii. Both species are basidiomycetous yeasts and major pathogens of humans and other mammals....