Arthroconidia of Coccidioides immitis. Photo by Hardin Creation
This genome was sequenced by the Broad
Institute.
Coccidioides immitis is a soil fungus which causes
coccidioidomycosis, also known as "valley fever," a serious and
sometimes fatal disease in otherwise healthy people. C.
immitis has been placed on the NIAID group II list of priority
emerging and re-emerging pathogens. Coccidioides species
have also become models for studying the evolutionary biology of
pathogenic fungi.
Genome Reference(s)
Please cite the following publication(s) if you use the data from this genome in your research:
Sharpton TJ, Stajich JE, Rounsley SD, Gardner MJ, Wortman JR, Jordar VS, Maiti R, Kodira CD, Neafsey DE, Zeng Q, Hung CY, McMahan C, Muszewska A, Grynberg M, Mandel MA, Kellner EM, Barker BM, Galgiani JN, Orbach MJ, Kirkland TN, Cole GT, Henn MR, Birren BW, Taylor JW
Comparative genomic analyses of the human fungal pathogens Coccidioides and their relatives.
Genome Res. 2009 Oct;19(10):1722-31. doi: 10.1101/gr.087551.108
Sharpton TJ, Stajich JE, Rounsley SD, Gardner MJ, Wortman JR, Jordar VS, Maiti R, Kodira CD, Neafsey DE, Zeng Q, Hung CY, McMahan C, Muszewska A, Grynberg M, Mandel MA, Kellner EM, Barker BM, Galgiani JN, Orbach MJ, Kirkland TN, Cole GT, Henn MR, Birren BW, Taylor JW
Comparative genomic analyses of the human fungal pathogens Coccidioides and their relatives.
Genome Res. 2009 Oct;19(10):1722-31. doi: 10.1101/gr.087551.108
