Chromosome instability and unusual features of some widely used strains of Candida albicans

Yeast

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 433-448

  Ahmad, Ausaf ^a   Kabir, M Anaul ^b   Kravets, Anatoliy ^a   Andaluz, Encarnación ^c   Larriba, German ^c   Rustchenko, Elena ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b P A COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING   (India)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EXTREMADURA   (Spain)

Author keywords

BWP17; C. albicans; CAF4 2; CAI4; Chromosome instability; Fragmentation; Strain SC5314

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CHROMOSOMAL INSTABILITY; CHROMOSOME BAND; CHROMOSOME DUPLICATION; CHROMOSOME SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENSITOMETRY; DISOMY; FUNGAL GENETICS; FUNGAL STRAIN; GENETIC ANALYSIS; KARYOTYPING; MONOSOMY; NONHUMAN; PLOIDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TELOMERE;

ANIMALS; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CHROMOSOMAL INSTABILITY; CHROMOSOMES, FUNGAL; HUMANS; KARYOTYPING; PLOIDIES;

CANDIDA ALBICANS;

EID: 47349125107     PISSN: 0749503X     EISSN: 10970061     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/yea.1597     Document Type: Article

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