Morphotype Transition and Sexual Reproduction Are Genetically Associated in a Ubiquitous Environmental Pathogen

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2014, Pages

  Wang, Linqi ^a   Tian, Xiuyun ^a   Gyawali, Rachana ^a   Upadhyay, Srijana ^a   Foyle, Dylan ^a   Wang, Gang ^b   Cai, James J ^b   Lin, Xiaorong ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CFL1 PROTEIN; DMC1 PROTEIN; FAS1 PROTEIN; PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; PHEROMONE; PUM1 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ZNF2 PROTEIN; CELL CYCLE PROTEIN; COFILIN 1; FATTY ACID SYNTHASE; FUNGAL PROTEIN; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CELL FUSION; COLONY IMMUNOBLOTTING; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; FEMALE; FILAMENTATION; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNOBLOTTING; LIFE CYCLE STAGE; MATING; MEIOSIS; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MICROBIAL ADHESION; MICROBIAL GENETICS; MICROBIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA AND FUNCTIONS; MICROORGANISM; MORPHOTYPE TRANSITION; MOUSE; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PHYSICAL PHENOMENA; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REPRODUCTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; WESTERN BLOTTING; A J MOUSE; ANIMAL; ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; BIOSYNTHESIS; CYTOLOGY; FUNGAL MATING TYPE GENE; FUNGUS HYPHAE; GENE INACTIVATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MORPHOGENESIS; PATHOLOGY; YEAST;

ANIMALS; CELL CYCLE PROTEINS; COFILIN 1; CRYPTOCOCCOSIS; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; FATTY ACID SYNTHASES; FEMALE; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE KNOCKOUT TECHNIQUES; GENES, MATING TYPE, FUNGAL; HYPHAE; LIFE CYCLE STAGES; MEIOSIS; MICE; MICE, INBRED A; MORPHOGENESIS; REPRODUCTION, ASEXUAL; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; YEASTS; ZINC FINGERS;

EID: 84903480783     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1004185     Document Type: Article

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