Chitin synthase 2 gene sequence of Malassezia species

Microbiology and Immunology

Volumn 43, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 813-815

  Kano, Rui ^a,b   Aizawa, Tomohiro ^a   Nakamura, Yuka ^b   Watanabe, Shinichi ^b   Hasegawa, Atsuhiko ^a  

^a NIHON UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TEIKYO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chitin synthase gene; Malassezia; PCR; Phylogeny

Indexed keywords

CHITIN SYNTHASE; DNA FRAGMENT; FUNGAL DNA;

ARTICLE; FUNGAL GENETICS; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; MALASSEZIA; MALASSEZIA FURFUR; MALASSEZIA PACHYDERMATIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

MALASSEZIA; MALASSEZIA FURFUR; MALASSEZIA OBTUSA; MALASSEZIA PACHYDERMATIS; MALASSEZIA RESTRICTA; MALASSEZIA SLOOFFIAE; MALASSEZIA SYMPODIALIS;

EID: 0032791380     PISSN: 03855600     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1348-0421.1999.tb02475.x     Document Type: Article

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