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. 1985 Mar;161(3):1231–1232. doi: 10.1128/jb.161.3.1231-1232.1985

Occurrence of diploid strains of Cryptococcus neoformans.

C W White, E S Jacobson
PMCID: PMC215034  PMID: 3882667

Abstract

A mating between niacin and pantothenate auxotrophs of Cryptococcus neoformans gave a few prototrophic progeny that were self-fertile. These were uninuclear but contained twice as much DNA as the parental strains. Segregation of nutritional markers was observed upon sporulation. We conclude that these self-fertile strains are diploids.

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