2006
Eukaryotic microbes, species recognition and the geographic limits of species: examples from the kingdom Fungi
Taylor JW, Turner E, Townsend JP, Dettman JR, Jacobson D. Eukaryotic microbes, species recognition and the geographic limits of species: examples from the kingdom Fungi. Philosophical Transactions Of The Royal Society B Biological Sciences 2006, 361: 1947-1963. PMID: 17062413, PMCID: PMC1764934, DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2006.1923.Peer-Reviewed Reviews, Practice Guidelines, Standards, and Consensus StatementsConceptsGlobal geographic rangeGeographic rangeSpecies recognitionFungal speciesGenetic isolationEukaryotic microbesSmall organismsNon-exclusive reasonsPhylogenetic species recognitionEndemic speciesRecognizable morphological changesEukaryotic speciesMorphological changesPhylogenetic speciesGeographic limitsReproductive isolationMorphological speciesKingdom FungiMorphological charactersMicrobial organismsGenetic changesSpeciesMorphological differencesOrganismsFungi
2005
Concerted Evolution in the Repeats of an Immunomodulating Cell Surface Protein, SOWgp, of the Human Pathogenic Fungi Coccidioides immitis and C. posadasii
Johannesson H, Townsend JP, Hung CY, Cole GT, Taylor JW. Concerted Evolution in the Repeats of an Immunomodulating Cell Surface Protein, SOWgp, of the Human Pathogenic Fungi Coccidioides immitis and C. posadasii. Genetics 2005, 171: 109-117. PMID: 15965255, PMCID: PMC1456504, DOI: 10.1534/genetics.105.040923.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchMeSH KeywordsAntigens, FungalCoccidioidesCoccidioidomycosisDNA, FungalEvolution, MolecularGene ConversionGenetic VariationHumansMembrane GlycoproteinsMutationPhylogenyPolymorphism, GeneticRecombination, GeneticRepetitive Sequences, Nucleic AcidSequence Analysis, DNASpecies SpecificityTandem Repeat SequencesConceptsPathogenic fungus Coccidioides immitisConcerted evolutionProtein-coding genesC. posadasiiGenetic distance analysisPoint mutation rateHost-pathogen interactionsCell surface proteinsGenome dynamicsPathogen's benefitMultigene familyUnequal crossingGeographic rangeFungus Coccidioides immitisRepetitive domainEntire geneMutation rateRepetitive arraysSurface proteinsDistance analysisGenesHost immune systemImmune systemImmunodominant proteinsParasitic phase