Mating-type locus homozygosis, phenotypic switching and mating: A unique sequence of dependencies in Candida albicans

BioEssays

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 10-20

  Soll, David R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL PROTEIN; HWP1 PROTEIN, CANDIDA ALBICANS; MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

ALLELE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDIASIS; CHROMOSOME; FUNGAL GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LOCUS; GENETICS; HETEROZYGOTE; HOMOZYGOTE; MATING; MATING TYPE LOCUS; MEIOSIS; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ALLELES; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CHROMOSOMES; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENES, FUNGAL; GENES, MATING TYPE, FUNGAL; HETEROZYGOTE; HOMOZYGOTE; MEIOSIS; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, GENETIC; PHENOTYPE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TEMPERATURE;

CANDIDA; CANDIDA ALBICANS; SACCHAROMYCES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0347004638     PISSN: 02659247     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bies.10379     Document Type: Review

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