Rapid mechanisms for generating genome diversity: Whole ploidy shifts, aneuploidy, and loss of heterozygosity

Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Medicine

Volumn 4, Issue 10, 2014, Pages

  Bennett, Richard J ^a   Forche, Anja ^b   Berman, Judith ^c,d  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BOWDOIN COLLEGE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^d TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ANEUPLOIDY; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; BASIDIOSPORE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CHROMOSOME SEGREGATION; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; ENDOREDUPLICATION; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HETEROZYGOSITY LOSS; HOMOLOGOUS RECOMBINATION; HUMAN; MATING TYPE; MEIOSIS; MITOTIC RECOMBINATION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PLOIDY; REPRODUCTION; SPOROGENESIS; ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

CANDIDA ALBICANS; FILOBASIDIELLA NEOFORMANS;

ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS; ENDOREDUPLICATION; GENETIC VARIATION; LOSS OF HETEROZYGOSITY; MEIOSIS; PLOIDIES; REPRODUCTION, ASEXUAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 85005916167     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21571422     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/cshperspect.a019604     Document Type: Article

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