Clonality Despite Sex: The Evolution of Host-Associated Sexual Neighborhoods in the Pathogenic Fungus Penicillium marneffei

• Main Authors: Henk D.A., Shahar-Golan R., Devi K.R., Boyce K.J., Zhan N., Fedorova N.D., Nierman W.C., Hsueh P.-R., Yuen K.-Y., Sieu T.P.M., Van Kinh N., Wertheim H., Baker S.G., Day J.N., Vanittanakom N., Bignell E.M., Andrianopoulos A., Fisher M.C.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2014
• Online Access: http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84868103431&partnerID=40&md5=93e1266a761040a9243a03f8e8d2d5fd; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23055919; http://cmuir.cmu.ac.th/handle/6653943832/3972
• Institution: Chiang Mai University

Molecular genetic approaches typically detect recombination in microbes regardless of assumed asexuality. However, genetic data have shown the AIDS-associated pathogen Penicillium marneffei to have extensive spatial genetic structure at local and regional scales, and although there has been some gen...