Parasexuality and ploidy change in Candida tropicalis

Eukaryotic Cell

Volumn 12, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 1629-1640

  Seervai, Riyad N H ^a,b   Jones Jr , Stephen K ^a   Hirakawa, Matthew P ^a   Porman, Allison M ^a   Bennett, Richard J ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANDIDA TROPICALIS; CYTOLOGY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FUNGAL MATING TYPE GENE; GENETICS; PLOIDY; REPRODUCTION;

CANDIDA TROPICALIS; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENES, MATING TYPE, FUNGAL; PLOIDIES; REPRODUCTION;

EID: 84888246100     PISSN: 15359778     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/EC.00128-13     Document Type: Article

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