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...
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...
Impact of Mating Type, Serotype, and Ploidy on the Virulence of Cryptococcus neoformans▿ †
Lin, Xiaorong, Nielsen, Kirsten, Patel, Sweta, Heitman, Joseph
Hybridization with polyploidization is a significant biological force driving evolution. The effect of combining two distinct genomes in one organism on the virulence potential of pathogenic fungi is...
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...