Browsing Duke Faculty Scholarship by Duke-affiliated Author "Dietrich, Fred Samuel"

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Evolution of the sex-Related Locus and Genomic Features Shared in Microsporidia and Fungi

Lee, Soo Chan; Dietrich, Fred; Heitman, Joseph (PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE, 2010)

Background: Microsporidia are obligate intracellular, eukaryotic pathogens that infect a wide range of animals from nematodes to humans, and in some cases, protists. The preponderance of evidence as to the origin of the ...
Morphological and Genomic Characterization of Filobasidiella depauperata: A Homothallic Sibling Species of the Pathogenic Cryptococcus Species Complex

Rodriguez-Carres, Marianela; Findley, Keisha; Sun, Sheng; Dietrich, Fred; Heitman, Joseph (PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE, 2010)

The fungal species Cryptococcus neoformans and Cryptococcus gattii cause respiratory and neurological disease in animals and humans following inhalation of basidiospores or desiccated yeast cells from the environment. ...