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SUBMITTER: Maxwell CS
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6430640 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Maxwell Colin S CS Mattox Kathleen K Turissini David A DA Teixeira Marcus M MM Barker Bridget M BM Matute Daniel R DR
Evolution; international journal of organic evolution 20181204 1
The fungal genus Coccidioides is composed of two species, Coccidioides immitis and Coccidioides posadasii. These two species are the causal agents of coccidioidomycosis, a pulmonary disease also known as valley fever. The two species are thought to have shared genetic material due to gene exchange in spite of their long divergence. To quantify the magnitude of shared ancestry between them, we analyzed the genomes of a population sample from each species. Next, we inferred what is the expected si ...[more]