Formation of new chromosomes as a virulence mechanism in yeast candida glabrata

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 2688-2693

  Poláková, Silvia ^a   Blume, Christian ^a   Zárate, Julián Álvarez ^a   Mentel, Marek ^a,b   Jørck Ramberg, Dorte ^b   Stenderup, Jørgen ^c   Piškur, Jure ^a,b  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^c Regionshospitalet Herning ^*  (Denmark)

Author keywords

Chromosome rearrangements; Evolution; Genome stability; Pathogenicity; Segmental duplications

Indexed keywords

FLUCONAZOLE;

ANTIFUNGAL SUSCEPTIBILITY; ARTICLE; CANDIDA GLABRATA; CENTROMERE; CHROMOSOME; CHROMOSOME REARRANGEMENT; FUNGAL GENOME; FUNGAL VIRULENCE; FUNGUS CULTURE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC STABILITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; NONHUMAN; PLASTICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TELOMERE;

ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOTTING, SOUTHERN; CANDIDA GLABRATA; CHROMOSOMES, FUNGAL; DNA PRIMERS; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VIRULENCE;

CANDIDA GLABRATA; EUKARYOTA;

EID: 62449137037     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0809793106     Document Type: Article

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