Genotype-environment interactions of spontaneous mutations for vegetative fitness in the human pathogenic fungus Cryptococcus neoformans

Genetics

Volumn 168, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 1177-1188

  Xu, Jianping ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE;

ARTICLE; CELL ASSAY; CELL LINE; CLONING; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; CULTURE MEDIUM; FUNGUS; GENE MUTATION; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; HERITABILITY; MUTATION RATE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPONTANEOUS MUTATION; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; VEGETATIVE GROWTH;

CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MUTATION; TEMPERATURE;

FILOBASIDIELLA NEOFORMANS; FUNGI; MAMMALIA;

EID: 10844272361     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.104.030031     Document Type: Article

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