Transmission of Hypervirulence Traits via Sexual Reproduction within and between Lineages of the Human Fungal Pathogen Cryptococcus gattii

Congenic Strains for Genetic Analysis of Virulence Traits in Cryptococcus gattii

(2013) Pinkuan Zhu et al.   INFECTION AND IMMUNITY

Prezygotic and Postzygotic Control of Uniparental Mitochondrial DNA Inheritance in Cryptococcus neoformans

(2013) R. Gyawali et al.   mBio

Using False Discovery Rates to Benchmark SNP-callers in next-generation sequencing projects

(2013) Rhys A. Farrer et al.   Scientific Reports

Cryptococcus gattiias an important fungal pathogen of western North America

(2012) Kieren A Marr   Expert Review of Anti-Infective Therapy

Fast gapped-read alignment with Bowtie 2

(2012) Ben Langmead et al.   NATURE METHODS

Aneuploidy and Drug Resistance in Pathogenic Fungi

(2012) Kyung J. Kwon-Chung et al.   PLoS Pathogens

Mechanisms of Uniparental Mitochondrial DNA Inheritance in Cryptococcus neoformans

(2012) Rachana Gyawali et al.   MYCOBIOLOGY

Mechanisms of unisexual mating in Cryptococcus neoformans

(2011) Linqi Wang et al.   FUNGAL GENETICS AND BIOLOGY

Cryptococcus gattii: an emerging fungal pathogen infecting humans and animals

(2011) Edmond J. Byrnes et al.   MICROBES AND INFECTION

Identification of Novel Hybrids Between Cryptococcus neoformans var. grubii VNI and Cryptococcus gattii VGII

(2011) Mojgan Aminnejad et al.   MYCOPATHOLOGIA

Expanding fungal pathogenesis: Cryptococcus breaks out of the opportunistic box

(2011) James W. Kronstad et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Genome Variation in Cryptococcus gattii, an Emerging Pathogen of Immunocompetent Hosts

(2011) C. A. D'Souza et al.   mBio

A Diverse Population of Cryptococcus gattii Molecular Type VGIII in Southern Californian HIV/AIDS Patients

(2011) Edmond J. Byrnes et al.   PLoS Pathogens

Evolution of Eukaryotic Microbial Pathogens via Covert Sexual Reproduction

(2010) Joseph Heitman   Cell Host & Microbe

Mitochondrial inheritance in haploid × non-haploid crosses in Cryptococcus neoformans

(2010) Irina Skosireva et al.   CURRENT GENETICS

Sex-induced silencing defends the genome of Cryptococcus neoformans via RNAi

(2010) X. Wang et al.   GENES & DEVELOPMENT

progressiveMauve: Multiple Genome Alignment with Gene Gain, Loss and Rearrangement

(2010) Aaron E. Darling et al.   PLoS One

Self-Mating in the Definitive Host Potentiates Clonal Outbreaks of the Apicomplexan Parasites Sarcocystis neurona and Toxoplasma gondii

(2010) Jered M. Wendte et al.   PLoS Genetics

Cryptococcus neoformans Overcomes Stress of Azole Drugs by Formation of Disomy in Specific Multiple Chromosomes

(2010) Edward Sionov et al.   PLoS Pathogens

Emergence and Pathogenicity of Highly Virulent Cryptococcus gattii Genotypes in the Northwest United States

(2010) Edmond J. Byrnes et al.   PLoS Pathogens

The Sequence Alignment/Map format and SAMtools

(2009) H. Li et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Fast and accurate short read alignment with Burrows-Wheeler transform

(2009) H. Li et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

CNV-seq, a new method to detect copy number variation using high-throughput sequencing

(2009) Chao Xie et al.   BMC BIOINFORMATICS

Promiscuous mitochondria inCryptococcus gattii

(2009) Marjan Bovers et al.   FEMS YEAST RESEARCH

Cryptococcus gattii Isolates from the British Columbia Cryptococcosis Outbreak Induce Less Protective Inflammation in a Murine Model of Infection than Cryptococcus neoformans

(2009) P.-Y. Cheng et al.   INFECTION AND IMMUNITY

Cytokine Signaling Regulates the Outcome of Intracellular Macrophage Parasitism by Cryptococcus neoformans

(2009) K. Voelz et al.   INFECTION AND IMMUNITY

Molecular Evidence That the Range of the Vancouver Island Outbreak ofCryptococcus gattiiInfection Has Expanded into the Pacific Northwest in the United States

(2009) Edmond J. Byrnes III et al.   JOURNAL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Divergence, hybridization, and recombination in the mitochondrial genome of the human pathogenic yeastCryptococcus gattii

(2009) JIANPING XU et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

First Reported Case of Cryptococcus gattii in the Southeastern USA: Implications for Travel-Associated Acquisition of an Emerging Pathogen

(2009) Edmond J. Byrnes et al.   PLoS One

Genetic Diversity of the Cryptococcus Species Complex Suggests that Cryptococcus gattii Deserves to Have Varieties

(2009) Popchai Ngamskulrungroj et al.   PLoS One

The fatal fungal outbreak on Vancouver Island is characterized by enhanced intracellular parasitism driven by mitochondrial regulation

(2009) H. Ma et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Diploids in the Cryptococcus neoformans Serotype A Population Homozygous for the α Mating Type Originate via Unisexual Mating

(2009) Xiaorong Lin et al.   PLoS Pathogens

Transitions in Sexuality: Recapitulation of an Ancestral Tri- and Tetrapolar Mating System inCryptococcus neoformans

(2008) Yen-Ping Hsueh et al.   EUKARYOTIC CELL

Velvet: Algorithms for de novo short read assembly using de Bruijn graphs

(2008) D. R. Zerbino et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

Association between fertility and molecular sub-type of global isolates ofCryptococcus gattiimolecular type VGII

(2008) Popchai Ngamskulrungroj et al.   MEDICAL MYCOLOGY

The emergence of Cryptococcus gattii in British Columbia and the Pacific Northwest

(2008) Karen H. Bartlett et al.   Current Infectious Disease Reports

Six monophyletic lineages identified within Cryptococcus neoformans and Cryptococcus gattii by multi-locus sequence typing

(2007) M. Bovers et al.   FUNGAL GENETICS AND BIOLOGY