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Unisexual reproduction promotes competition for mating partners in the global human fungal pathogen <i>Cryptococcus deneoformans</i>
2019-01-17
Abstract excerpt
Courtship is pivotal for successful mating. However, courtship is challenging for the Cryptococcus neoformans species complex, comprised of opportunistic fungal pathogens, as the majority of isolates are α mating type. In the absence of mating partners of the opposite mating type, C. deneoformans can undergo unisexual reproduction, during which a yeast-to-hyphal morphological transition occurs. Hyphal growth dur...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 2c546dff-c8bd-5377-8177-77ad1b1d5568
- DOI
- 10.1101/523894