Mating is rare within as well as between clades of the human pathogen Candida albicans

Fungal Genetics and Biology

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 221-231

  Bougnoux, Marie Elisabeth ^a,b   Pujol, Claude ^c   Diogo, Dorothée ^a   Bouchier, Christiane ^a   Soll, David R ^c   d'Enfert, Christophe ^a  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^b HÔPITAL NECKER ENFANTS MALADES   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Ca3; Clade; Loss of heterozygosity; Mating; Multilocus sequence typing; Recombination

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CLADISTICS; FERTILIZATION; FUNGUS ISOLATION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENOTYPE; HETEROZYGOSITY; HETEROZYGOSITY LOSS; HETEROZYGOTE; MATING; MOLECULAR TYPING; NONHUMAN; POLYMORPHIC LOCUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

CANDIDA ALBICANS;

EID: 39149108499     PISSN: 10871845     EISSN: 10960937     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fgb.2007.10.008     Document Type: Article

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