The asexual yeast Candida glabrata maintains distinct a and α haploid mating types

Eukaryotic Cell

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 848-858

  Muller, Héloïse ^a,b   Hennequin, Christophe ^b   Gallaud, Julien ^b   Dujon, Bernard ^a   Fairhead, Cécile ^a  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^b SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL PROTEIN; PHEROMONE; PHEROMONE RECEPTOR;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CANDIDA GLABRATA; CHEMISTRY; DRUG EFFECT; FUNGAL GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HAPLOIDY; INTRON; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CANDIDA GLABRATA; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENES, MATING TYPE, FUNGAL; HAPLOIDY; INTRONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHEROMONES; RECEPTORS, PHEROMONE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

CANDIDA GLABRATA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 47049120414     PISSN: 15359778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/EC.00456-07     Document Type: Article

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