Rapid gain and loss of a chromosome drives key morphology and virulence phenotypes in the fungal pathogen Histoplasma

• Sarah Heater,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

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• Mark Voorhies,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

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• Rosa A. Rodriguez,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

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• Bevin C. English,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, CoLabs, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

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• Anita Sil

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: anita.sil@ucsf.edu

  Affiliations Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Biohub—San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3987-7534

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