Sixty alleles of the ALS7 open reading frame in Candida albicans: ALS7 is a hypermutable contingency locus

Genome Research

Volumn 13, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 2005-2017

  Zhang, Ningxin ^a   Harrex, Annette L ^b   Holland, Barbara R ^a   Fenton, Lauren E ^b   Cannon, Richard D ^b   Schmid, Jan ^a  

^a MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGLUTININ; VIRULENCE FACTOR;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; EPITHELIUM CELL; FUNGUS ISOLATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CODE; GENOME ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTION; PATHOGENICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TANDEM REPEAT; THRUSH; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ALLELES; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENETIC MARKERS; GENOTYPE; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUTATION; OPEN READING FRAMES; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; RNA, MESSENGER; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TANDEM REPEAT SEQUENCES; VARIATION (GENETICS);

ANIMALIA; CANDIDA; CANDIDA ALBICANS; FUNGI; MYXOGASTRIA;

EID: 0141854002     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.1024903     Document Type: Article

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