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SUBMITTER: Kowalski CH
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7396965 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Kowalski Caitlin H CH Kerkaert Joshua D JD Liu Ko-Wei KW Bond Matthew C MC Hartmann Raimo R Nadell Carey D CD Stajich Jason E JE Cramer Robert A RA
Nature microbiology 20190923 12
Microbial populations form intricate macroscopic colonies with diverse morphologies whose functions remain to be fully understood. Despite fungal colonies isolated from environmental and clinical samples revealing abundant intraspecies morphological diversity, it is unclear how this diversity affects fungal fitness and disease progression. Here we observe a notable effect of oxygen tension on the macroscopic and biofilm morphotypes of the human fungal pathogen Aspergillus fumigatus. A hypoxia-ty ...[more]