Mating in Candida albicans and the search for a sexual cycle

Annual Review of Microbiology

Volumn 59, Issue , 2005, Pages 233-255

  Bennett, R J ^a   Johnson, A D ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Meiosis; Parasexual cycle; Phenotypic switching; Pheromone; White opaque switching

Indexed keywords

PHEROMONE;

ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CHROMOSOME LOSS; FUNGUS IDENTIFICATION; GENE; GENE LOCUS; GENE SWITCHING; MATING; MEIOSIS; MICROFLORA; MTL GENE; NONHUMAN; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTION; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; REVIEW; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

ANIMALS; CANDIDA ALBICANS; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENES, MATING TYPE, FUNGAL; HUMANS; PHENOTYPE; PHEROMONES;

CANDIDA ALBICANS; FUNGI; MAMMALIA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 27144497790     PISSN: 00664227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.micro.59.030804.121310     Document Type: Review

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