The biology of mating in Candida albicans

Nature Reviews Microbiology

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 106-116

  Johnson, Alexander ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL PROTEIN;

BACTERIUM CONJUGATION; CANDIDA ALBICANS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

CANDIDA ALBICANS; CONJUGATION, GENETIC; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; HUMANS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0344412144     PISSN: 17401526     EISSN: 17401534     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrmicro752     Document Type: Article

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