The complex evolution and genomic dynamics of mating-type loci in Cryptococcus and Kwoniella

• Marco A. Coelho ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Marco A. Coelho, Márcia David-Palma

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

  * E-mail: marco.dias.coelho@duke.edu (MAC); heitm001@duke.edu (JH)

  Affiliation Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5716-0561

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• Márcia David-Palma ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Marco A. Coelho, Márcia David-Palma

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

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• Seonju Marincowitz,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Genetics and Microbiology, Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute (FABI), University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa

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• Janneke Aylward,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Biochemistry, Genetics and Microbiology, Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute (FABI), University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa, Department of Conservation Ecology and Entomology, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa

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• Nam Q. Pham,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Genetics and Microbiology, Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute (FABI), University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa

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• Andrey M. Yurkov,

  Roles Resources, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Leibniz Institute DSMZ-German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures, Braunschweig, Germany

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• Brenda D. Wingfield,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Genetics and Microbiology, Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute (FABI), University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa

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• Michael J. Wingfield,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Genetics and Microbiology, Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute (FABI), University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa

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• Sheng Sun,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

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• Joseph Heitman

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: marco.dias.coelho@duke.edu (MAC); heitm001@duke.edu (JH)

  Affiliation Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6369-5995

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