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. 2013;9(12):e1003764.
doi: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1003764. Epub 2013 Dec 12.

Balancing stability and flexibility within the genome of the pathogen Cryptococcus neoformans

Kate L Ormerod  1 , James A Fraser  1
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Balancing stability and flexibility within the genome of the pathogen Cryptococcus neoformans

Kate L Ormerod et al. PLoS Pathog. 2013.
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Figure 1
Figure 1. Genomic comparisons between var. grubii and var. neoformans reveal relatively few rearrangements.
Since divergence 18.5 million years ago, the two varieties of C. neoformans have maintained a largely syntenic genome structure with only a few inversions specific to each variety (marked with arrows). Comparisons also uncovered several strain-specific events: a translocation in the case of the var. grubii type strain H99 and telomere-telomere fusion and introgression in the case of var. neoformans JEC21.
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