The parasexual cycle in Candida albicans provides an alternative pathway to meiosis for the formation of recombinant strains

PLoS Biology

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1084-1097

  Forche, Anja ^a   Alby, Kevin ^b   Schaefer, Dana ^b   Johnson, Alexander D ^c   Berman, Judith ^a   Bennett, Richard J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SPO11 PROTEIN; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE; ESTERASE; MEIOTIC RECOMBINATION PROTEIN SPO11;

ARTICLE; ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CELL DIVISION; CHROMOSOME LOSS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIPLOIDY; DNA STRAND BREAKAGE; FUNGAL STRAIN; GENE CONVERSION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENOTYPE; MEIOSIS; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REPRODUCTION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TETRAPLOIDY; CHROMOSOME; CYTOLOGY; FUNGAL GENOME; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LETHAL GENE; METABOLISM; RECESSIVE GENE;

ANIMALIA; CANDIDA ALBICANS; FUNGI; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE;

CANDIDA ALBICANS; CHROMOSOMES, FUNGAL; DIPLOIDY; ENDODEOXYRIBONUCLEASES; ESTERASES; GENES, LETHAL; GENES, RECESSIVE; GENOME, FUNGAL; GENOTYPE; MEIOSIS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC;

EID: 45149091409     PISSN: 15449173     EISSN: 15457885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060110     Document Type: Article

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