Evidence from comparative genomics for a complete sexual cycle in the 'asexual' pathogenic yeast Candida glabrata

Genome Biology

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2003, Pages

  Wong, Simon ^a   Fares, Mario A ^a   Zimmermann, Wolfgang ^b   Butler, Geraldine ^c   Wolfe, Kenneth H ^a  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b AGOWA GmbH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Additional Data File; Candida Glabrata; Candida Species; Phenotypic Switching; Sexual Cycle

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL DNA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CANDIDA GLABRATA; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; FUNGAL GENE; GENETICS; GENOMICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; KLUYVEROMYCES; MEIOSIS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY;

CANDIDA GLABRATA; DNA, FUNGAL; GENES, FUNGAL; GENES, MATING TYPE, FUNGAL; GENOMICS; KLUYVEROMYCES; MEIOSIS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 0037270524     PISSN: 14747596     EISSN: 1474760X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/gb-2003-4-2-r10     Document Type: Article

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