Fungal sex and pathogenesis

Clinical Microbiology Reviews

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 140-159

  Butler, Geraldine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASCOMYCETES; BASIDIOMYCETES; BLOODSTREAM INFECTION; CANDIDA; CANDIDA CLADE; CANDIDA GLABRATA; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; FUNGAL GENE; GENE CASSETTE; HOSPITAL INFECTION; MALASSEZIA; MATING; MEIOSIS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; MYCOSIS; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PEZIZOMYCOTINA; REPRODUCTION; REVIEW; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; USTILAGO;

EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FUNGI; GENES, MATING TYPE, FUNGAL; GENETIC VARIATION; HUMANS; MYCOSES; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC;

EID: 74249092511     PISSN: 08938512     EISSN: 10986618     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/CMR.00053-09     Document Type: Review

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