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More Cocci genomes
The Broad Institute has made available additional genomes of strains of Coccidioides immitis and C. posadasii. There are now genome sequences for 4 strains of C. immitis sequenced and 3 strains of C....
View ArticleOnygenales genome cluster
I’m excited about our projects to tackle the evolution of the Onygenales fungi. I just remembered to look and see what was going on with the Blastomyces genome sequencing at WashU. I checked and the...
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Coccidioides in the news
The NY Times has an article on the high rate of Coccidioides incidence at the state prison in Pleasant Valley, California. The infection rate has been documented by Pappagianis et al in an in-depth...
View ArticleDermatophyte genome sequences
The first of several dermatophyte fungal genomes, Microsporum gypseum, has been released at the Broad’s Dermatophyte site. Two Tricophyton species and another Microsporum genome should follow soon....
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How to get A. fumigatus in the mood for love
A manuscript at Nature AOP details the success of the Dyer lab and collaborators in encouraging Aspergillus fumigatus to complete the sexual cycle under observable (e.g. laboratory) conditions. The...
View ArticleMethylation to the max!
A new paper from the Zilberman lab at UC Berkeley shows the application of high throughput sequencing to the study of DNA methylation in eukaryotes. They generate an huge data set of whole genome...
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