Sex-Induced Silencing Operates During Opposite-Sex and Unisexual Reproduction in Cryptococcus neoformans
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Sex-induced silencing operates during opposite-sex and unisexual reproduction in Cryptococcus neoformans.
Cryptococcus neoformans is a human fungal pathogen that undergoes a dimorphic transition from yeast to hyphae during a-α opposite-sex mating and α-α unisexual reproduction (same-sex mating). Infectious spores are generated during both processes. We previously identified a sex-induced silencing (SIS) pathway in the C. neoformans serotype A var. grubii lineage, in which tandem transgene arrays tr...
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عنوان ژورنال: Genetics
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1943-2631
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.113.149443