Anna Floyd

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...

'PACLIMS': A component LIM system for high-throughput functional genomic analysis (2005)

Donofrio, Nicole, Rajagopalon, Ravi, Brown, Douglas, Diener, Stephen, Windham, Donald, Nolin, Shelly, ...

Abstract Background Recent advances in sequencing techniques leading to cost reduction have resulted in the generation of a growing number of sequenced eukaryotic genomes. Computational tools greatly...

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...

Identification of ENA1 as a Virulence Gene of the Human Pathogenic Fungus Cryptococcus neoformans through Signature-Tagged Insertional Mutagenesis ▿

Idnurm, Alexander, Walton, Felicia J., Floyd, Anna, Reedy, Jennifer L., Heitman, Joseph

A library of more than 4,500 signature-tagged insertion mutants of the human pathogenic fungus Cryptococcus neoformans was generated, and a subset was screened in a murine inhalation model to...