Genetic and Genomic Analyses Reveal Boundaries between Species Closely Related to Cryptococcus Pathogens

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The evolutionary drivers of speciation are critical to our understanding of how new pathogens arise from nonpathogenic lineages and adapt to new environments. Here we focus on the Cryptococcus amylolentus species complex, a nonpathogenic fungal lineage closely related to the human-pathogenic Cryptococcus neoformans / Cryptococcus gattii complex. Using genetic and genomic analyses, we reexamined the species...

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