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Sep 2026
An ancestral mitochondrial DNA insertion disrupts RNAi and enables persistence of a novel mycovirus in Cryptococcus neoformans
RNA interference (RNAi) is a widely conserved genome-defense mechanism that protects eukaryotes against viruses and transposable elements. We previously showed that RNAi loss can lead to hypermutation and antifungal drug resistance in the human fungal pathogen Cryptococcus neoformans, illuminating the potential clinica...
Jun Huang, Connor J. Larmore, Timothy C. Davenport et al.
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