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Clonality despite sex: the evolution of host-associated sexual neighborhoods in the pathogenic fungus Penicillium marneffei.
PLoS pathogens - 1 Jan 2012
Henk Daniel A, Shahar-Golan Revital, Devi Khuraijam Ranjana, Boyce Kylie J, Zhan Nengyong, Fedorova Natalie D, Nierman William C, Hsueh Po-Ren, Yuen Kwok-Yung, Sieu Tran P M, Kinh Nguyen Van, Wertheim Heiman, Baker Stephen G, Day Jeremy N, Vanittanakom Nongnuch, Bignell Elaine M, Andrianopoulos Alex, Fisher Matthew C
Abstract excerpt
Molecular genetic approaches typically detect recombination in microbes regardless of assumed asexuality. However, genetic data have shown the AIDS-associated pathogen Penicillium marneffei to have extensive spatial genetic structure at local and regional scales, and although there has been some genetic evidence that a sexual cycle is possible, this haploid fungus is thought to be genetically, as well as...
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