Identification of the MATa mating-type locus of Cryptococcus neoformans reveals a serotype A MATa strain thought to have been extinct

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 97, Issue 26, 2000, Pages 14455-14460

  Lengeler, Klaus B ^a   Wang, Ping ^a   Cox, Gary M ^a   Perfect, John R ^a   Heitman, Joseph ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; GENE LOCUS; MATING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SEROTYPE; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DNA, FUNGAL; GENES, FUNGAL; GENES, MATING TYPE, FUNGAL; HUMANS; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SEROTYPING; VIRULENCE;

EID: 0034687743     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.97.26.14455     Document Type: Article

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