Comparative and functional genomics provide insights into the pathogenicity of dermatophytic fungi.

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Published in Genome Biol on January 19, 2011

Authors

Anke Burmester1, Ekaterina Shelest, Gernot Glöckner, Christoph Heddergott, Susann Schindler, Peter Staib, Andrew Heidel, Marius Felder, Andreas Petzold, Karol Szafranski, Marc Feuermann, Ivo Pedruzzi, Steffen Priebe, Marco Groth, Robert Winkler, Wenjun Li, Olaf Kniemeyer, Volker Schroeckh, Christian Hertweck, Bernhard Hube, Theodore C White, Matthias Platzer, Reinhard Guthke, Joseph Heitman, Johannes Wöstemeyer, Peter F Zipfel, Michel Monod, Axel A Brakhage

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Molecular and Applied Microbiology, Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology - Hans Knöll Institute, Beutenbergstrasse 11a, Jena, 07745, Germany.

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