Clonal reproduction in fungi

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 112, Issue 29, 2015, Pages 8901-8908

  Taylor, John W ^a   Hann Soden, Christopher ^a   Branco, Sara ^a   Sylvain, Iman ^a   Ellison, Christopher E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Clonality; Fungi; Population genomics; Recombination; Reproduction

Indexed keywords

AJELLOMYCES CAPSULATUS; BATRACHOCHYTRIUM DENDROBATIDIS; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CLONAL VARIATION; CRYPTOCOCCUS GATTII; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FUNGUS; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HYBRIDIZATION; MATING SYSTEM; NEUROSPORA; NONHUMAN; OUTBREEDING; PERCEPTION; POPULATION GENETICS; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; REVIEW; SACCHAROMYCES; SELFING; TRICHOPHYTON RUBRUM; ANIMAL; CELL CLONE; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MYCORRHIZA; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALIA; FUNGI; NEUROSPORA; SACCHAROMYCES;

ANIMALS; CLONE CELLS; FUNGI; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MYCORRHIZAE; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; REPRODUCTION;

EID: 84937457952     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1503159112     Document Type: Review

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