Comparative genomics of the closely related fungal genera Cryptococcus and Kwoniella reveals karyotype dynamics and suggests evolutionary mechanisms of pathogenesis

• Marco A. Coelho ,

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

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, 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

  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, Investigation, 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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• Terrance Shea,

  Roles Formal analysis

  Affiliation Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Katharine Bowers,

  Roles Formal analysis

  Affiliation Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Sage McGinley-Smith,

  Roles Formal analysis

  Affiliation Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Arman W. Mohammad,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Andreas Gnirke,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Andrey M. Yurkov,

  Roles Resources

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

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• Minou Nowrousian,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

  Affiliation Lehrstuhl für Molekulare und Zelluläre Botanik, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Bochum, Germany

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• Sheng Sun ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: sheng.sun@duke.edu (SS); cuomo@broadinstitute.org (CAC); 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/0000-0002-2895-1153

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• Christina A. Cuomo ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: sheng.sun@duke.edu (SS); cuomo@broadinstitute.org (CAC); heitm001@duke.edu (JH)

  ¶‡ CAC and JH also contributed equally to this work. CAC and JH are joint senior authors on this work.

  Affiliation Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5778-960X

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• Joseph Heitman

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

  * E-mail: sheng.sun@duke.edu (SS); cuomo@broadinstitute.org (CAC); heitm001@duke.edu (JH)

  ¶‡ CAC and JH also contributed equally to this work. CAC and JH are joint senior authors on this work.

  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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