Concerted evolution in the repeats of an immunomodulating cell surface protein, SOWgp, of the human pathogenic fungi Coccidioides immitis and C. posadasii.

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Published in Genetics on June 18, 2005

Authors

Hanna Johannesson1, Jeffrey P Townsend, Chiung-Yu Hung, Garry T Cole, John W Taylor

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Evolution, Genomics and Systematics, Evolutionary Biology Centre, Uppsala University, Sweden. hanna.johannesson@ebc.uu.se

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