Estimating the spontaneous mutation rate of loss of sex in the human pathogenic fungus Cryptococcus neoformans

Genetics

Volumn 162, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 1157-1167

  Xu, Jianping ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; MATING; MEIOSIS; MITOSIS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUTATION RATE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPONTANEOUS MUTATION; VEGETATIVE GROWTH; ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MUTATION; PHYSIOLOGY;

CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS;

CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; MUTATION; REPRODUCTION, ASEXUAL;

EID: 0036860733     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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