Impact of genetic background on allele selection in a highly mutable Candida albicans gene, PNG2

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2010, Pages

  Zhang, Ningxin ^a   Cannon, Richard D ^b   Holland, Barbara R ^a   Patchett, Mark L ^a   Schmid, Jan ^a  

^a MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIDASE; PROTEIN; REPETITIVE DNA; FUNGAL PROTEIN;

ADAPTATION; ALLELE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM MUTANT; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CELL DIVISION; CELL SURFACE; CLADISTICS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA SEQUENCE; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGAL GENETICS; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGUS ISOLATION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GEOGRAPHY; IMMUNE SYSTEM; LABORATORY; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; MUTATION RATE; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PROTEIN VARIANT; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOLOGY; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETICS; METHODOLOGY; MUTATION; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PHYSIOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL MODEL;

CANDIDA ALBICANS;

ALLELES; AMIDOHYDROLASES; BLOTTING, NORTHERN; CANDIDA ALBICANS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE FREQUENCY; GENES, FUNGAL; GEOGRAPHY; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 77949699974     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0009614     Document Type: Article

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