Browsing Scholarly Articles by Author "Findley, Keisha"

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The Mating Type Locus (MAT) and Sexual Reproduction of Cryptococcus heveanensis: Insights into the Evolution of Sex and Sex-Determining Chromosomal Regions in Fungi

Metin, Banu; Findley, Keisha; Heitman, Joseph (PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE, 2010)

Mating in basidiomycetous fungi is often controlled by two unlinked, multiallelic loci encoding homeodomain transcription factors or pheromones/pheromone receptors. In contrast to this tetrapolar organization, Cryptococcus ...
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. ...