image: Cleistothecia (sexual fruiting bodies, the white fluffy balls surrounded by asexual green chains of spores) of Aspergillus fumigatus. view more
Credit: Eveline Snelders (CC-BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
Aspergillus fumigatus is a saprotrophic fungus that can cause serious life-threatening invasive infections in immunocompromised individuals; by constructing a recombination map, this study shows that A. fumigatus produces the highest number of crossovers per chromosome ever described (~30 per chromosome pair).
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Article Title: The human fungal pathogen Aspergillus fumigatus can produce the highest known number of meiotic crossovers
Author Countries: the Netherlands, United Kingdom
Funding: This work was supported by the Nederlands Wetenschappelijk Organisatie (ALWGR.2017.010 to BA), The European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases 2018 Research Grant (3184200058 to ES), and the Wellcome Trust (219551/Z/19/Z to JR, FAS, PSD, MCF). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. The other authors received no specific funding for this work. MCF is a CIFAR Fellow in the Fungal Kingdom programme.
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Competing interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.