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A team led by Ó³»­´«Ã½ researchers Christina Cuomo, Diego Martinez, Sharadha Sakthikumar, and Richard Bennett and Matthew Hirakawa at Brown University sequenced and phenotypically profiled 21 different isolates of the fungus Candida albicans. , which was published in the journal Genome Research, found extensive genetic and phenotypic diversity across the species and identified a natural mutation in the fungus that can affect whether it will live peacefully in the human gut or become pathogenic.