Short-term exposure to fluconazole induces chromosome loss in Candida albicans: An approach to produce haploid cells

Fungal Genetics and Biology

Volumn 70, Issue , 2014, Pages 68-76

  Chang, Fang Mo ^a   Ou, Tsong Yih ^b   Cheng, Wei Ning ^a   Chou, Ming Li ^a   Lee, Kai Cheng ^a   Chin, Yi Ping ^a   Lin, Chih Peng ^c   Chang, Kai Di ^c   Lin, Che Tong ^a   Su, Ching Hua ^a  

^a TAIPEI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b TAIPEI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c Yourgene Bioscience Inc   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Candida albicans; Chromosome copy number; Fluconazole; Next generation sequencing

Indexed keywords

DNA; FLUCONAZOLE; ANTIFUNGAL AGENT;

ALLELE; ANEUPLOIDY; ARTICLE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CELL SEPARATION; CELL STRUCTURE; CHROMOSOME 8; CHROMOSOME LOSS; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPY NUMBER VARIATION; DNA CONTENT; DRUG EXPOSURE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGUS ISOLATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; GENE SEQUENCE; HAPLOIDY; HAPLOTYPE; HETEROZYGOSITY LOSS; HOMOZYGOSITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; CELL CULTURE; CHROMOSOME; DNA SEQUENCE; FUNGAL CELL; GENE DOSAGE; HAPLOTYPE MAP; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFECTS; GENETICS;

ANEUPLOIDY; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CHROMOSOMES, FUNGAL; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; FLUCONAZOLE; HAPLOIDY; LOSS OF HETEROZYGOSITY; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE;

EID: 84905435944     PISSN: 10871845     EISSN: 10960937     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fgb.2014.06.009     Document Type: Article

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