Selective advantages of a parasexual cycle for the yeast Candida albicans

Genetics

Volumn 200, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 1117-1132

  Zhang, Ningxin ^a   Magee, Beatrice B ^b   Magee, Paul T ^b   Holland, Barbara R ^c   Rodrigues, Ely ^d   Holmes, Ann R ^d   Cannon, Richard D ^d   Schmid, Jan ^a  

^a MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Candida albicans; Cryptic sexual cycle; Mating; Parasexual cycle

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CHROMOSOME 5; CHROMOSOME LOSS; FUNGAL MATING TYPE GENE; FUNGUS ISOLATION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENOTYPE; GROWTH RATE; HETEROZYGOSITY; HETEROZYGOSITY LOSS; HOMOZYGOTE; MALE; MATING; MEIOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; RAT; ANIMAL; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTION;

CANDIDA ALBICANS;

ANIMALS; CANDIDA ALBICANS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES, MATING TYPE, FUNGAL; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMANS; MALE; MUTATION; RATS; REPRODUCTION; SELECTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84939457088     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 19432631     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.115.177170     Document Type: Article

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