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Patterns recovered in phylogenomic analysis of and close relatives implicate broad environmental flexibility in clade yeasts Open Access

Abstract

Fungal pathogens commonly originate from benign or non-pathogenic strains living in the natural environment. The recently emerged human pathogen, is one example of a fungus believed to have originated in the environment and recently transitioned into a clinical setting. To date, however, there is limited evidence about the origins of this species in the natural environment and when it began associating with humans. One approach to overcome this gap is to reconstruct phylogenetic relationships between (1) strains isolated from clinical and non-clinical environments and (2) between species known to cause disease in humans and benign environmental saprobes. belongs to the clade, a diverse group of 45 yeast species including human pathogens and environmental saprobes. We present a phylogenomic analysis of the clade aimed at understanding the ecological breadth and evolutionary relationships between an expanded sample of environmentally and clinically isolated yeasts. To build a robust framework for investigating these relationships, we developed a whole-genome sequence dataset of 108 isolates representing 18 species, including four newly sequenced species and 18 environmentally isolated strains. Our phylogeny, based on 619 orthologous genes, shows environmentally isolated species and strains interspersed with clinically isolated counterparts, suggesting that there have been many transitions between humans and the natural environment in this clade. Our findings highlight the breadth of environments these yeasts inhabit and imply that many clinically isolated yeasts in this clade could just as easily live outside the human body in diverse natural environments and vice versa.

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Keyword(s): Candida auris , Candida haemulonii and yeast phylogenomics
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Patterns recovered in phylogenomic analysis of Candida auris and close relatives implicate broad environmental flexibility in Candida/Clavispora clade yeasts
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