Prof. Dr. Rudi Balling, director of LCSB, explains the medical implications of the new insights: «We have long known of aneuploidy in multicellular organisms. (sciencedaily.com)
Consistent with the observed consequences of aneuploidy in S. cerevisiae, all aneuploid C. neoformans strains in our study exhibited a TS phenotype (Figure 3A). (journals.plos.org)
Heitman is currently looking for aneuploidy in samples from the outbreak of Cryptococcus gattii in the western part of North America to see if it can explain how this sister strain of Cryptococcus neoformans has come to infect otherwise healthy individuals. (sciencedaily.com)