Transmission of Hypervirulence Traits via Sexual Reproduction within and between Lineages of the Human Fungal Pathogen Cryptococcus gattii

• Kerstin Voelz,

  Affiliations Institute of Microbiology and Infection & School of Biosciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom, The National Institute of Health Research Surgical Reconstruction and Microbiology Research Centre, Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom

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• Hansong Ma,

  Current address: Biochemistry and Biophysics Department, University of California, San Francisco, California, United States of America.

  Affiliation Institute of Microbiology and Infection & School of Biosciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom

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• Sujal Phadke,

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

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• Edmond J. Byrnes,

  Current address: Office of the Director, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America.

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

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• Pinkuan Zhu,

  Affiliation School of Biological Sciences, University of Missouri, Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America

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• Olaf Mueller,

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

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• Rhys A. Farrer,

  Affiliation Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

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• Daniel A. Henk,

  Current address: Department of Biology and Biochemistry, University of Bath, Bath, United Kingdom.

  Affiliation Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

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• Yonathan Lewit,

  Current address: GrassRoots, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America.

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

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• Yen-Ping Hsueh,

  Current address: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, United States of America.

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

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• Matthew C. Fisher,

  Affiliation Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

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• Alexander Idnurm,

  Affiliation School of Biological Sciences, University of Missouri, Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America

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• Joseph Heitman ,

  * E-mail: heitm001@duke.edu (JH); R.C.May@bham.ac.uk (RCM)

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

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• Robin C. May

  * E-mail: heitm001@duke.edu (JH); R.C.May@bham.ac.uk (RCM)

  Affiliations Institute of Microbiology and Infection & School of Biosciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom, The National Institute of Health Research Surgical Reconstruction and Microbiology Research Centre, Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom

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