Abundant sequence variation around the mitochondrial origin of replication in the human opportunistic yeast pathogen Candida albicans from a tropical island in China

Fungal Genetics and Biology

Volumn 44, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 991-1001

  Wang, Huamin ^a   Guo, Hong ^a   Sun, Sheng ^b   Xu, Jianping ^a,b  

^a HAINAN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Candida albicans; ITS; Mitochondrial DNA; Phylogeography; Transition and transversion ratio

Indexed keywords

DNA FRAGMENT; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CHINA; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGUS ISOLATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOMICS; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MITOCHONDRION; MUTATION; MYCOSIS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

BASE SEQUENCE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDIASIS; CHINA; DNA REPLICATION; DNA, FUNGAL; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; GENOME, FUNGAL; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; PHYLOGENY; REPLICATION ORIGIN; TROPICAL CLIMATE; VARIATION (GENETICS);

ANIMALIA; CANDIDA ALBICANS; EUKARYOTA; FUNGI;

EID: 34548259468     PISSN: 10871845     EISSN: 10960937     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fgb.2007.03.005     Document Type: Article

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