Unexpected genomic variability in clinical and environmental strains of the pathogenic yeast Candida parapsilosis

Genome Biology and Evolution

Volumn 5, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 2382-2392

  Pryszcz, Leszek P ^a,b   Németh, Tibor ^c   Gácser, Attila ^c   Gabaldón, Toni ^a,b,d  

^a CENTRE FOR GENOMIC REGULATION CRG   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SZEGED   (Hungary)

^d INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Candida; Genome comparison; Pathogens; Recombination

Indexed keywords

ARSENITE TRANSPORTING ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE;

ARTICLE; CANDIDA; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; FUNGAL GENOME; GENE DELETION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GENOME COMPARISON; INVASIVE CANDIDIASIS; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENS; PHYLOGENY; RECOMBINATION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

CANDIDA; GENOME COMPARISON; PATHOGENS; RECOMBINATION;

ARSENITE TRANSPORTING ATPASES; BASE SEQUENCE; CANDIDA; CANDIDIASIS, INVASIVE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME, FUNGAL; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SELECTION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE DELETION;

EID: 84892522981     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17596653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evt185     Document Type: Article

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