Deciphering the model pathogenic fungus Cryptococcus neoformans

Nature Reviews Microbiology

Volumn 3, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 753-764

  Idnurm, Alexander ^a   Bahn, Yong Sun ^a   Nielsen, Kirsten ^a   Lin, Xiaorong ^a   Fraser, James A ^a   Heitman, Joseph ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGAL VIRULENCE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOME; HUMAN; LIFE CYCLE; MICROBIOLOGY; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; REVIEW; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPOROGENESIS; TRANSPOSON; ANIMAL; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PATHOGENICITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; VIRULENCE;

CANDIDA ALBICANS; EMERICELLA NIDULANS; FILOBASIDIELLA NEOFORMANS; FUNGI; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

ANIMALS; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; GENOME, FUNGAL; HUMANS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VIRULENCE;

EID: 27244439061     PISSN: 17401526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrmicro1245     Document Type: Review

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