Homozygosity at the MTL locus in clinical strains of Candida albicans: Karyotypic rearrangments and tetraploid formation

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 52, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1451-1462

  Legrand, Melanie ^a   Lephart, Paul ^a   Forche, Anja ^a   Mueller, Frank Michael C ^b,c   Walsh, T ^c   Magee, P T ^a   Magee, Beatrice B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUCONAZOLE; MARKER;

ALLELE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CELL STRUCTURE; CHROMOSOME 4; CHROMOSOME 5; CHROMOSOME 6; CHROMOSOME 7; CONTROLLED STUDY; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGUS ISOLATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE REARRANGEMENT; HETEROZYGOSITY; HOMOZYGOSITY; KARYOTYPE; MATING; MATING TYPE LIKE LOCUS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

ALLELES; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDIASIS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; FLUCONAZOLE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMANS; KARYOTYPING; PLOIDIES; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

CANDIDA; CANDIDA ALBICANS; FUNGI; SACCHAROMYCES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 2942598771     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2004.04068.x     Document Type: Article

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