Allelic variation in the contiguous loci encoding Candida albicans ALS5, ALS1 and ALS9

Microbiology

Volumn 149, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 2947-2960

  Zhao, Xiaomin ^a   Pujol, Claude ^b   Soll, David R ^b   Hoyer, Lois L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL MEMBRANE PROTEIN; GLYCOPROTEIN; NUCLEOTIDE;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CHROMOSOME 6; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWNSTREAM PROCESSING; GENE DELETION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

CANDIDA; CANDIDA ALBICANS; FUNGI; MYXOGASTRIA;

EID: 0142011066     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.26495-0     Document Type: Article

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