Fred S Dietrich

Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology and University Program in Genetics and Genomics, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina 27710

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September 2014

Cryptococcus gattii VGIII isolates causing infections in HIV/AIDS patients in Southern California: identification of the local environmental source as arboreal.

Authors:

Deborah J Springer R Blake Billmyre Elan E Filler Kerstin Voelz Rhiannon Pursall Piotr A Mieczkowski Robert A Larsen Fred S Dietrich Robin C May Scott G Filler Joseph Heitman

PLoS Pathog 2014 Aug 21;10(8):e1004285. Epub 2014 Aug 21.

Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America; Department of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America; Department of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America.

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August 2014

Analysis of the genome and transcriptome of Cryptococcus neoformans var. grubii reveals complex RNA expression and microevolution leading to virulence attenuation.

Authors:

Guilhem Janbon Kate L Ormerod Damien Paulet Edmond J Byrnes Vikas Yadav Gautam Chatterjee Nandita Mullapudi Chung-Chau Hon R Blake Billmyre François Brunel Yong-Sun Bahn Weidong Chen Yuan Chen Eve W L Chow Jean-Yves Coppée Anna Floyd-Averette Claude Gaillardin Kimberly J Gerik Jonathan Goldberg Sara Gonzalez-Hilarion Sharvari Gujja Joyce L Hamlin Yen-Ping Hsueh Giuseppe Ianiri Steven Jones Chinnappa D Kodira Lukasz Kozubowski Woei Lam Marco Marra Larry D Mesner Piotr A Mieczkowski Frédérique Moyrand Kirsten Nielsen Caroline Proux Tristan Rossignol Jacqueline E Schein Sheng Sun Carolin Wollschlaeger Ian A Wood Qiandong Zeng Cécile Neuvéglise Carol S Newlon John R Perfect Jennifer K Lodge Alexander Idnurm Jason E Stajich James W Kronstad Kaustuv Sanyal Joseph Heitman James A Fraser Christina A Cuomo Fred S Dietrich

PLoS Genet 2014 Apr 17;10(4):e1004261. Epub 2014 Apr 17.

Duke University Medical Center, Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America.

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April 2014

The reference genome sequence of Saccharomyces cerevisiae: then and now.

Authors:

Stacia R Engel Fred S Dietrich Dianna G Fisk Gail Binkley Rama Balakrishnan Maria C Costanzo Selina S Dwight Benjamin C Hitz Kalpana Karra Robert S Nash Shuai Weng Edith D Wong Paul Lloyd Marek S Skrzypek Stuart R Miyasato Matt Simison J Michael Cherry

G3 (Bethesda) 2014 Mar 20;4(3):389-98. Epub 2014 Mar 20.

Department of Genetics, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305.

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March 2014

Unisexual and heterosexual meiotic reproduction generate aneuploidy and phenotypic diversity de novo in the yeast Cryptococcus neoformans.

Authors:

Min Ni Marianna Feretzaki Wenjun Li Anna Floyd-Averette Piotr Mieczkowski Fred S Dietrich Joseph Heitman

PLoS Biol 2013 Sep 10;11(9):e1001653. Epub 2013 Sep 10.

Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America.

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September 2013

Reconstructing genome evolution in historic samples of the Irish potato famine pathogen.

Authors:

Michael D Martin Enrico Cappellini Jose A Samaniego M Lisandra Zepeda Paula F Campos Andaine Seguin-Orlando Nathan Wales Ludovic Orlando Simon Y W Ho Fred S Dietrich Piotr A Mieczkowski Joseph Heitman Eske Willerslev Anders Krogh Jean B Ristaino M Thomas P Gilbert

Nat Commun 2013 ;4:2172

Centre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Øster Voldgade 5-7, 1350 Copenhagen K, Denmark.

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January 2014

Genomes of Ashbya fungi isolated from insects reveal four mating-type loci, numerous translocations, lack of transposons, and distinct gene duplications.

Authors:

Fred S Dietrich Sylvia Voegeli Sidney Kuo Peter Philippsen

G3 (Bethesda) 2013 Aug 7;3(8):1225-39. Epub 2013 Aug 7.

Duke Institute of Genome Sciences and Policy, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27710, USA.

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August 2013

High-throughput genome sequencing of lichenizing fungi to assess gene loss in the ammonium transporter/ammonia permease gene family.

Authors:

Tami R McDonald Olaf Mueller Fred S Dietrich François Lutzoni

BMC Genomics 2013 Apr 4;14:225. Epub 2013 Apr 4.

Department of Biology, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA.

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April 2013

Discovery of a modified tetrapolar sexual cycle in Cryptococcus amylolentus and the evolution of MAT in the Cryptococcus species complex.

Authors:

Keisha Findley Sheng Sun James A Fraser Yen-Ping Hsueh Anna Floyd Averette Wenjun Li Fred S Dietrich Joseph Heitman

PLoS Genet 2012 16;8(2):e1002528. Epub 2012 Feb 16.

Genetics and Molecular Biology Branch, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.

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February 2013

High-resolution genome-wide analysis of irradiated (UV and γ-rays) diploid yeast cells reveals a high frequency of genomic loss of heterozygosity (LOH) events.

Authors:

Jordan St Charles Einat Hazkani-Covo Yi Yin Sabrina L Andersen Fred S Dietrich Patricia W Greenwell Ewa Malc Piotr Mieczkowski Thomas D Petes

Genetics 2012 Apr 20;190(4):1267-84. Epub 2012 Jan 20.

Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710, USA.

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April 2012

A diverse population of Cryptococcus gattii molecular type VGIII in southern Californian HIV/AIDS patients.

Authors:

Edmond J Byrnes Wenjun Li Ping Ren Yonathan Lewit Kerstin Voelz James A Fraser Fred S Dietrich Robin C May Sudha Chaturvedi Sudha Chatuverdi Vishnu Chaturvedi Vishnu Chatuverdi Joseph Heitman

PLoS Pathog 2011 Sep 1;7(9):e1002205. Epub 2011 Sep 1.

Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America.

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September 2011

A whole-genome analysis of premature termination codons.

Authors:

Elizabeth T Cirulli Erin L Heinzen Fred S Dietrich Kevin V Shianna Abanish Singh Jessica M Maia James J Goedert David B Goldstein

Genomics 2011 Nov 22;98(5):337-42. Epub 2011 Jul 22.

Center for Human Genome Variation, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC 27708, USA.

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November 2011

Multiple horizontal gene transfers of ammonium transporters/ammonia permeases from prokaryotes to eukaryotes: toward a new functional and evolutionary classification.

Authors:

Tami R McDonald Fred S Dietrich François Lutzoni

Mol Biol Evol 2012 Jan 16;29(1):51-60. Epub 2011 Jun 16.

Department of Biology, Duke University, USA.

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January 2012

Oxidative stress survival in a clinical Saccharomyces cerevisiae isolate is influenced by a major quantitative trait nucleotide.

Authors:

Stephanie Diezmann Fred S Dietrich

Genetics 2011 Jul 21;188(3):709-22. Epub 2011 Apr 21.

Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy and Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina 27710, USA.

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July 2011