A STE12 homolog is required for mating but dispensable for filamentation in Candida lusitaniae

Genetics

Volumn 155, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 17-29

  Young, Laura Y ^a   Lorenz, Michael C ^a,b   Heitman, Joseph ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CANDIDA LUSITANIAE; DNA DETERMINATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; LIFE CYCLE; MATING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; VIRULENCE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CANDIDA; CYCLOHEXIMIDE; DNA, FUNGAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENES, FUNGAL; LEUCINE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS; NITROGEN; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS INHIBITORS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SERINE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

CANDIDA; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CLAVISPORA LUSITANIAE; FILOBASIDIELLA NEOFORMANS; PROKARYOTA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0034015937     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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