Through a glass opaquely: The biological significance of mating in Candida albicans

Current Opinion in Microbiology

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 661-665

  Magee, P T ^a   Magee, Beatrice B ^a  

^a Cell Biology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN;

CANDIDA ALBICANS; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; COMMENSALISM; FUNGAL CELL; FUNGAL GENE; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGAL VIRULENCE; FUNGUS CULTURE; FUNGUS HYPHAE; FUNGUS ISOLATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HOMOZYGOSITY; HOMOZYGOTE; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; IN VIVO STUDY; MATING; MATING TYPE LIKE A1 GENE; MATING TYPE LIKE ALPHA2 GENE; MEIOSIS; NONHUMAN; ORTHOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; PROGENY; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; UPREGULATION;

CANDIDA ALBICANS; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; HUMANS;

CANDIDA; CANDIDA ALBICANS; FUNGI;

EID: 8844255508     PISSN: 13695274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mib.2004.10.003     Document Type: Review

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