Wieland Meyer

TL;DR: Molecular data resolved two subclades within the Mortierella isabellina-group; however, they are not correlated with any differences in sporangial wall and shape, spore pigmentation andshape, or sporangiophore branching, so all taxa are subsume in one genus, Umbelopsis.

TL;DR: The results of this passive surveillance study demonstrate that cryptococcosis caused by C. gattii has a low prevalence in Colombia, with the exception of Norte de Santander, and the predominance of molecular type VGII is of concern considering its association with high virulence and the potential to evolve into outbreaks.

TL;DR: The pipeline efficiently produced a comprehensive overview of the microbiome of two biological data sets, including both eukaryotes and prokaryotes, and is sufficiently fast and memory efficient to use the entire NCBI nucleotide collection as reference, enabling the assessment of species with incomplete genome sequence data from all biological kingdoms.

TL;DR: The data presented herein strongly supports the emergence of highly virulent strains from ancestors in the Northern regions of Brazil, Amazonia and the Northeast, which represent a link between Brazil and other parts of the world reinforcing South America as the most likely origin of the C. gattii VGII subtypes and their subsequent global spread, including their dispersal into North America.

TL;DR: This is the first study discovering novel natural hybrids between C.neoformans molecular type VNI and C. gattii molecular type VGII and all the hybrids contained both serotype A and B alleles.