Highly Recombinant VGII <named-content content-type="genus-species">Cryptococcus gattii</named-content> Population Develops Clonal Outbreak Clusters through both Sexual Macroevolution and Asexual Microevolution

Highly Recombinant VGII <named-content content-type="genus-species">Cryptococcus gattii</named-content> Population Develops Clonal Outbreak Clusters through both Sexual Macroevolution and Asexual Microevolution

ABSTRACT An outbreak of the fungal pathogen Cryptococcus gattii began in the Pacific Northwest (PNW) in the late 1990s. This outbreak consists of three clonal subpopulations: VGIIa/major, VGIIb/minor, and VGIIc/novel. Both VGIIa and VGIIc are unique to the PNW and exhibit increased virulence. In thi...

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Main Authors: R. Blake Billmyre, Daniel Croll, Wenjun Li, Piotr Mieczkowski, Dee A. Carter, Christina A. Cuomo, James W. Kronstad, Joseph Heitman
Format: article
Language:EN
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2014
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Microbiology
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/cf1f3b8e8bf44201988a2ae84c7809e4
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