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Environmental Induction of White–Opaque Switching in Candida albicans

Candida albicans strains that are homozygous at the mating type locus (MTL a or MTLα) can spontaneously switch at a low frequency from the normal yeast cell morphology (white) to an elongated cell type (opaque), which is the mating-competent form of the fungus. The ability to switch reversibly betwe...

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Autores principales: Ramírez-Zavala, Bernardo, Reuß, Oliver, Park, Yang-Nim, Ohlsen, Knut, Morschhäuser, Joachim
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2405950/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18551173
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1000089