Genus-Wide Comparative Genomics of Malassezia Delineates Its Phylogeny, Physiology, and Niche Adaptation on Human Skin

• Main Authors: Wu, Guangxi, Zhao, He, Rajapakse, Menaka Priyadarsani, Wong, Wing Cheong, Xu, Jun, Saunders, Charles W., Reeder, Nancy L., Reilman, Raymond A., Scheynius, Annika, Sun, Sheng, Billmyre, Blake Robert, Li, Wenjun, Averette, Anna Floyd, Mieczkowski, Piotr, Heitman, Joseph, Theelen, Bart, Schröder, Markus S., De Sessions, Paola Florez, Butler, Geraldine, Maurer-Stroh, Sebastian, Boekhout, Teun, Nagarajan, Niranjan, Dawson, Thomas L., Li, Chenhao
• Other Authors: Barsh, Gregory S.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: Peptidase; Malassezia
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/81546; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/39583
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Malassezia is a unique lipophilic genus in class Malasseziomycetes in Ustilaginomycotina, (Basidiomycota, fungi) that otherwise consists almost exclusively of plant pathogens. Malassezia are typically isolated from warm-blooded animals, are dominant members of the human skin mycobiome and are associ...