A genome sequence survey shows that the pathogenic yeast Candida parapsilosis has a defective MTLa1 allele at its mating type locus

Eukaryotic Cell

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1009-1017

  Logue, Mary E ^a   Wong, Simon ^b   Wolfe, Kenneth H ^b   Butler, Geraldine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL DNA;

ALLELE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CANDIDA; CHEMISTRY; CHROMOSOME; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; FUNGAL GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETICS; GENOME; INTRON; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PATHOGENICITY; PSEUDOGENE; REVIEW; RNA SPLICING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STOP CODON;

ALLELES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CANDIDA; CHROMOSOMES, FUNGAL; CODON, TERMINATOR; DNA, FUNGAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENES, FUNGAL; GENES, MATING TYPE, FUNGAL; GENOME, FUNGAL; INTRONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPEN READING FRAMES; PSEUDOGENES; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; RNA SPLICING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, PROTEIN; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDA DUBLINIENSIS; CANDIDA PARAPSILOSIS;

EID: 20444467284     PISSN: 15359778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/EC.4.6.1009-1017.2005     Document Type: Review

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