Mitochondrial haplotypes and recombination in Candida albicans

Medical Mycology

Volumn 46, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 647-654

  Jacobsen, Mette D ^a   Rattray, Alexander M J ^a   Gow, Neil A R ^a   Odds, Frank C ^a   Shaw, Duncan J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Candida albicans; Haplotype; Mitochondrial; Recombination

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CLADISTICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNGAL GENETICS; FUNGAL STRAIN; GENE DELETION; GENE INSERTION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HAPLOTYPE; MITOCHONDRIAL GENE; MITOCHONDRIAL GENETICS; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

BASE SEQUENCE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDIASIS; GENE FREQUENCY; GEOGRAPHY; HAPLOTYPES; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MITOCHONDRIA; MYCOLOGICAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

CANDIDA ALBICANS; FUNGI;

EID: 55149121218     PISSN: 13693786     EISSN: 14602709     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13693780801986631     Document Type: Article

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