Browsing by Author "Feretzaki, Marianna"

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Transcription factors Mat2 and Znf2 operate cellular circuits orchestrating opposite- and same-sex mating in Cryptococcus neoformans.

Lin, Xiaorong; Jackson, Jennifer C; Feretzaki, Marianna; Xue, Chaoyang; Heitman, Joseph (PLoS genetics, 2010)

Cryptococcus neoformans is a human fungal pathogen that undergoes a dimorphic transition from a unicellular yeast to multicellular hyphae during opposite sex (mating) and unisexual reproduction (same-sex mating). Opposite- ...
Unisexual Reproduction in Cryptococcus: Evolutionary Implications, Virulence and RNA Silencing

Feretzaki, Marianna (2013)

Sexual development enables microbial pathogens to purge deleterious mutations from the genome and drives genetic diversity in the population. <italic>Cryptococcus neoformans</italic> is a human fungal pathogen with a defined ...