The evolutionary biology and population genetics underlying fungal strain typing

Clinical Microbiology Reviews

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 126-146

  Taylor, John W ^a   Geiser, David M ^a,b   Burt, Austin ^c   Koufopanou, Vassiliki ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICROSATELLITE DNA;

ASPERGILLUS FLAVUS; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; BIOLOGY; CANDIDA ALBICANS; COCCIDIOIDES IMMITIS; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA FINGERPRINTING; ELECTROPHORESIS; EVOLUTION; FUNGUS IDENTIFICATION; GENE ISOLATION; HISTOPLASMA CAPSULATUM; KARYOTYPING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION GENETICS; RANDOM AMPLIFIED POLYMORPHIC DNA; REPRODUCTION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; REVIEW; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

EID: 0032925659     PISSN: 08938512     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/cmr.12.1.126     Document Type: Review

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