Genetic Circuits that Govern Bisexual and Unisexual Reproduction in Cryptococcus neoformans

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Feretzaki, Marianna ^a   Heitman, Joseph ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

PHEROMONE;

ARTICLE; BISEXUAL REPRODUCTION; CELL FUSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRG1 GENE; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; DNA TRANSFER; FUNGAL DEVELOPMENT; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGAL REPRODUCTION; FUNGUS HYPHAE; GENE FUNCTION; GENE SILENCING; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC SCREENING; HORMONE SYNTHESIS; MAT2 GENE; MEIOSIS; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PARTHENOGENESIS; PHENOTYPE; REPRODUCTION; RETROPOSON; RHIZOBIUM RADIOBACTER; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPO11 GENE; SPOROGENESIS; STE7 GENE; TRANSPOSON; UBC5 GENE; ZNF2 GENE; ZNF3 GENE;

CELL FUSION; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; DIPLOIDY; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENES, MATING TYPE, FUNGAL; HUMANS; HYPHAE; MEIOSIS; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE KINASES; PHEROMONES; REPRODUCTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 84884590449     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1003688     Document Type: Article

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