In Candida albicans, white-opaque switchers are homozygous for mating type

Genetics

Volumn 162, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 737-745

  Lockhart, Shawn R ^a   Pujol, Claude ^a   Daniels, Karla J ^a   Miller, Matthew G ^b   Johnson, Alexander D ^b   Pfaller, Michael A ^c   Soil, David R ^a,c  

^a Department of Biological Sciences ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELISM; ARTICLE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGUS ISOLATION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LOCUS; HETEROZYGOTE; HOMOZYGOSITY; MATING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; GENETICS; HOMOZYGOTE; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY;

CANDIDA ALBICANS; FUNGI;

CANDIDA ALBICANS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, FUNGAL; GENES, MATING TYPE, FUNGAL; HOMOZYGOTE; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 0036812246     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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