Figure 1.
Malassezia phylogeny, impact on human skin, and mating type (MAT) locus.
(A) An ITS sequence-based phylogenetic tree of 14 Malassezia species inferred using neighbor joining method and a 500 replicate bootstrap analysis. Closely related Ustilago maydis and Cryptococcus neoformans were used as outgroups. (B) Malassezia-associated dandruff (photograph by Holly Krigbaum). (C) M. globosa MAT locus, comprising the bW- and bE-encoded transcription factors (the b locus) and genes for a pheromone and pheromone receptor (the a locus).