Discovery of a phenotypic switch regulating sexual mating in the opportunistic fungal pathogen Candida tropicalis

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

Volumn 108, Issue 52, 2011, Pages 21158-21163

  Porman, Allison M ^a   Alby, Kevin ^a,b   Hirakawa, Matthew P ^a   Bennett, Richard J ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA HOSPITALS   (United States)

Author keywords

Bistability; Epigenetic; Recombination

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR WOR1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; CANDIDA TROPICALIS; CONJUGATION; DIPLOIDY; EPIGENETICS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HUMAN; MATING; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; TETRAPLOIDY; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

CANDIDA TROPICALIS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; INDOLES; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; PHENOTYPE; REGULATORY ELEMENTS, TRANSCRIPTIONAL; REPRODUCTION; SEX; TEMPERATURE; TETRAPLOIDY;

CANDIDA TROPICALIS; EUKARYOTA; FUNGI; MAMMALIA;

EID: 84855509687     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1112076109     Document Type: Article

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