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Christina A. Cuomo

Brown University
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Threats posed by the fungal kingdom to humans, wildlife, and agriculture

MC Fisher, SJ Gurr, CA Cuomo, DS Blehert, H Jin… - MBio, 2020 - Am Soc Microbiol
The fungal kingdom includes at least 6 million eukaryotic species and is remarkable with
respect to its profound impact on global health, biodiversity, ecology, agriculture, manufacturing…

[HTML][HTML] The importance of antimicrobial resistance in medical mycology

…, C Johnson, J Berman, AT Coste, CA Cuomo… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
… auris and C. glabrata is reminiscent of the situation with … detected in Cryptococcus neoformans
38 and C. glabrata 39 , refers … For example, in C. neoformans, a common heteroresistance …

Genomics of the fungal kingdom: insights into eukaryotic biology

JE Galagan, MR Henn, LJ Ma, CA Cuomo… - Genome …, 2005 - genome.cshlp.org
… The basidiomycete C. neoformans is exceptional with regard to intron size, with an average
intron length of 68 bp and possessing many introns as short as 35 bp. As described below, …

[HTML][HTML] Pilon: an integrated tool for comprehensive microbial variant detection and genome assembly improvement

…, M Priest, A Abouelliel, S Sakthikumar, CA Cuomo… - PloS one, 2014 - journals.plos.org
… For example, for the multi nucleotide substitution in the curation set, ACCGT = > CCTGA,
three SNP calls at the same location, A>C, C>T and T>A, would be counted as a true positive. …

Sequencing of Aspergillus nidulans and comparative analysis with A. fumigatus and A. oryzae

JE Galagan, SE Calvo, C Cuomo, LJ Ma, JR Wortman… - Nature, 2005 - nature.com
The aspergilli comprise a diverse group of filamentous fungi spanning over 200 million
years of evolution. Here we report the genome sequence of the model organism Aspergillus …

[HTML][HTML] Comparative genomics reveals mobile pathogenicity chromosomes in Fusarium

…, S Young, Q Zeng, S Zhou, J Galagan, CA Cuomo… - Nature, 2010 - nature.com
Fusarium species are among the most important phytopathogenic and toxigenic fungi. To
understand the molecular underpinnings of pathogenicity in the genus Fusarium, we …

Simultaneous Emergence of Multidrug-Resistant Candida auris on 3 Continents Confirmed by Whole-Genome Sequencing and Epidemiological Analyses

…, AL Colombo, B Calvo, CA Cuomo… - Clinical Infectious …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
… emergence and epidemiology of C. auris, we obtained isolates from 54 patients with C. auris
infection … Here we report clinical characteristics of patients with C. auris infection, antifungal …

[HTML][HTML] Evolution of pathogenicity and sexual reproduction in eight Candida genomes

…, MC Lorenz, BW Birren, M Kellis, CA Cuomo - Nature, 2009 - nature.com
Candida species are the most common cause of opportunistic fungal infection worldwide.
Here we report the genome sequences of six Candida species and compare these and related …

[HTML][HTML] Genomic Analysis of the Necrotrophic Fungal Pathogens Sclerotinia sclerotiorum and Botrytis cinerea

J Amselem, CA Cuomo, JAL van Kan, M Viaud… - PLoS …, 2011 - journals.plos.org
… The BciPRP8 intein element is 2,514 bp in length and encodes the N- and C-terminal splicing
domains and the HEG domain. There is no intein in the Prp8 gene of B. cinerea strain T4, …

The Fusarium graminearum Genome Reveals a Link Between Localized Polymorphism and Pathogen Specialization

CA Cuomo, U Güldener, JR Xu, F Trail, BG Turgeon… - Science, 2007 - science.org
We sequenced and annotated the genome of the filamentous fungus Fusarium graminearum,
a major pathogen of cultivated cereals. Very few repetitive sequences were detected, and …