Genetic control of chlamydospore formation in Candida albicans

Microbiology

Volumn 149, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 3629-3637

  Nobile, Clarissa J ^a   Bruno, Vincent M ^a   Richard, Mathias L ^a   Davis, Dana A ^a,b   Mitchell, Aaron P ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL PROTEIN; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; OXYGEN;

ALKALINITY; ARTICLE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CHLAMYDOSPORE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; FUNGAL MORPHOLOGY; FUNGUS SPORE; GENE CONTROL; GENE INSERTION; GENE REPRESSION; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; GENETIC SCREENING; HOMOZYGOSITY; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PH; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

CANDIDA ALBICANS; FUNGI; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE;

EID: 0346252343     PISSN: 13500872     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.26640-0     Document Type: Article

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