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Virulence phenotypes result from an interaction between pathogen ploidy and genetic background

2019-06-15

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Studying fungal virulence is often challenging and frequently depends on many contexts, including host immune status and pathogen genetic background. However, ploidy has often been overlooked when studying virulence in eukaryotic pathogens. Since fungal pathogens, including the human opportunistic pathogen Candida albicans , can display extensive ploidy variation, assessing how ploidy impacts virulence has import...

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DOI: 10.1101/672519

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