Effect of the major repeat sequence on chromosome loss in Candida albicans

Eukaryotic Cell

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 733-741

  Lephart, Paul R ^a   Chibana, Hiroji ^b   Magee, Paul T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL DNA;

ARTICLE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CHROMOSOME; CHROMOSOME MAP; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; GENETICS; KARYOTYPING; LONG TERMINAL REPEAT; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE;

BASE SEQUENCE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CHROMOSOMES, FUNGAL; DNA, FUNGAL; KARYOTYPING; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHENOTYPE; TERMINAL REPEAT SEQUENCES;

CANDIDA ALBICANS;

EID: 18044363302     PISSN: 15359778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/EC.4.4.733-741.2005     Document Type: Article

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