Chromosome loss followed by duplication is the major mechanism of spontaneous mating-type locus homozygosis in Candida albicans

Genetics

Volumn 169, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 1311-1327

  Wu, Wei ^a   Pujol, Claude ^a   Lockhart, Shawn R ^a   Soll, David R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CHROMOSOME 1; CHROMOSOME 12; CHROMOSOME 2; CHROMOSOME 5; CHROMOSOME 6; CHROMOSOME DELETION 5; CHROMOSOME DUPLICATION; CHROMOSOME LOSS; CHROMOSOME MAP; CHROMOSOME MARKER; CHROMOSOME POLYMORPHISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; HETEROZYGOSITY; HOMOZYGOSITY; MATING TYPE; MEIOSIS; MITOTIC RECOMBINATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

BASE SEQUENCE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CHROMOSOMES, FUNGAL; CONTIG MAPPING; CROSSES, GENETIC; CROSSING OVER, GENETIC; DIPLOIDY; DNA PRIMERS; HOMOZYGOTE; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; SEQUENCE DELETION;

EID: 17444368579     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.104.033167     Document Type: Article

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