Species

Cryptococcus neoformans var. neoformans B-3501A

[ Opisthokonta | Fungi | Dikarya | . . .
. . . | Cryptococcus neoformans species complex | Cryptococcus neoformans | Cryptococcus neoformans var. neoformans ]

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Taxonomy: Eukaryota | Opisthokonta | Fungi | Dikarya | Basidiomycota | Agaricomycotina | Tremellomycetes | Tremellales | Cryptococcaceae | Cryptococcus | Cryptococcus neoformans species complex | Cryptococcus neoformans | Cryptococcus neoformans var. neoformans Synonym: Cryptococcus deneoformans, Filobasidiella neoformans var. neoformans, Cryptococcus neoformans serotype D Comment: Cryptococcus neoformans is a bipolar heterothallic fungus that causes cryptococcosis, one of the most serious fungal diseases worldwide. Filobasidiella neoformans, has never been observed in nature and was obtained on artificial medium inducing mating of two Cryptococcus strains of different mating type. Go to NCBI Taxonomy (283643) Encyclopedia of life Wikipedia Projects: GenBank - NIH genetic sequence database: GenBank species TBLASTN National Center for Biotechnology Information: NCBI Fungi Genomes Project Stanford Genome Technology Center: Cryptococcus neoformans Genome Project The Gene Index Project: DFCI Cryptococcus sp. (Filobasidiella neoformans) Gene Index Publications: Loftus BJ, Fung E, Roncaglia P et. al. (2005) The genome of the basidiomycetous yeast and human pathogen Cryptococcus neoformans. Science 307, 1321-4. 10.1126/science.1103773 Kupfer DM, Drabenstot SD, Buchanan KL et. al. (2004) Introns and splicing elements of five diverse fungi. Eukaryot Cell 3, 1088-100. 10.1128/EC.3.5.1088-1100.2004 Genome files National Center for Biotechnology Information Type Version Date Compl Cov GC % Size (Mbp) Contigs CGR Illegal Chars N50 (kbp) Acc File Seq info Chromosome v 1.0.0 2004-07-08 - 48.5 18.5 14 - 1461 Contigs v 1.0.0 2004-07-08 - 48.5 18.5 70 - 496