Efficient homologous and illegitimate recombination in the opportunistic yeast pathogen Candida glabrata

Genetics

Volumn 151, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 979-987

  Cormack, Brendan P ^a,c   Falkow, Stanley ^a,b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA FRAGMENT; FUNGAL DNA; PRIMER DNA;

ARTICLE; AUXOTROPHIC MUTANT; CANDIDA GLABRATA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DETERMINATION; GENE LOCATION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; INSERTIONAL CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION; INTRON; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENICITY; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS;

BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CANDIDA; CROSSES, GENETIC; DNA PRIMERS; GENES, FUNGAL; GENOTYPE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC;

CANDIDA GLABRATA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0032981335     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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