Transitions in sexuality: Recapitulation of an ancestral tri- and tetrapolar mating system in Cryptococcus neoformans

Eukaryotic Cell

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1847-1855

  Hsueh, Yen Ping ^a   Fraser, James A ^a,b   Heitman, Joseph ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CROSS BREEDING; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGUS SPORE; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYSIOLOGY;

CROSSES, GENETIC; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENES, MATING TYPE, FUNGAL; SPORES, FUNGAL;

ANIMALIA; FILOBASIDIELLA NEOFORMANS; FUNGI;

EID: 54249139752     PISSN: 15359778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/EC.00271-08     Document Type: Article

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