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Diploids in the Cryptococcus neoformans serotype A population homozygous for the alpha mating type originate via unisexual mating.

PLoS pathogens - 1 Jan 2009

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

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The ubiquitous environmental human pathogen Cryptococcus neoformans is traditionally considered a haploid fungus with a bipolar mating system. In nature, the alpha mating type is overwhelmingly predominant over a. How genetic diversity is generated and maintained by this heterothallic fungus in a largely unisexual alpha population is unclear. Recently it was discovered that C. neoformans can undergo same-sex...

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PMID: 19180236
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1000283
PMCID: PMC2629120

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