<![CDATA[BOL: Deadly Human Pathogen Cryptococcus Sequenced]]> https://bioinformaticsonline.com/news/view/10246/deadly-human-pathogen-cryptococcus-sequenced? https://bioinformaticsonline.com/news/view/10246/deadly-human-pathogen-cryptococcus-sequenced Fri, 25 Apr 2014 11:02:21 -0500 https://bioinformaticsonline.com/news/view/10246/deadly-human-pathogen-cryptococcus-sequenced <![CDATA[Deadly Human Pathogen Cryptococcus Sequenced]]> "Now, researchers have sequenced the entire genome and all the RNA products of the most important pathogenic lineage of Cryptococcus neoformans, a strain called H99. The results, which appear in PLOS Genetics, also describe a number of genetic changes that can occur after laboratory handling of H99 that make it more susceptible to stress, hamper its ability to sexually reproduce and render it less virulent."

Source:

http://www.biosciencetechnology.com/news/2014/04/deadly-human-pathogen-cryptococcus-fully-sequenced

Paper:

http://www.plosgenetics.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pgen.1004292

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