Diploid strains of the pathogenic basidiomycete cryptococcus neoformans are thermally dimorphic

Fungal Genetics and Biology

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 153-163

  Sia, Rey A ^a   Lengeler, Klaus B ^a   Heitman, Joseph ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL DNA;

ARTICLE; BASIDIOMYCETES; BLASTOMYCES DERMATITIDIS; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL TRANSFORMATION; COCCIDIOIDES IMMITIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSING OVER; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; DIPLOIDY; FERTILIZATION; FLUORESCENCE ACTIVATED CELL SORTER; FUNGUS GROWTH; FUNGUS SPORE; GENE LOCUS; HAPLOIDY; HETEROZYGOSITY; HISTOPLASMA CAPSULATUM; KARYOTYPE; LIFE CYCLE; MATING; MEIOSIS; MYCELIUM; MYCOSIS; NONHUMAN; PARACOCCIDIOIDES BRASILIENSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPOROGENESIS; SPOROTHRIX SCHENCKII; THERMOREGULATION; VIRULENCE; YEAST CELL;

AJELLOMYCES CAPSULATUS; AJELLOMYCES DERMATITIDIS; BASIDIOMYCOTA; BLASTOMYCES; BLASTOMYCES DERMATITIDIS; COCCIDIOIDES IMMITIS; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; FILOBASIDIELLA NEOFORMANS; FUNGI; HISTOPLASMA CAPSULATUM; PARACOCCIDIOIDES BRASILIENSIS; SPOROTHRIX; SPOROTHRIX SCHENCKII;

EID: 0033865535     PISSN: 10871845     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/fgbi.2000.1192     Document Type: Article

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