Living and thriving on the skin: Malassezia genomes tell the story

mBio

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Coelho, Marco A ^a   Sampaio, José Paulo ^a   Gonçalves, Paula ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDADE NOVA DE LISBOA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLERGEN; FUNGAL DNA;

ADAPTATION; ATOPIC DERMATITIS; DANDRUFF; FUNGAL GENE; GENE SEQUENCE; HOST; HUMAN; MALASSEZIA; MALASSEZIA GLOBOSA; MALASSEZIA SYMPODIALIS; MATING; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NOTE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE; PLANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN FLORA; USTILAGO MAYDIS; CHEMISTRY; DNA SEQUENCE; FUNGAL GENOME; GENETICS;

DNA, FUNGAL; GENOME, FUNGAL; HUMANS; MALASSEZIA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84880062595     PISSN: 21612129     EISSN: 21507511     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/mBio.00117-13     Document Type: Note

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