Publication Date:
2000-08-05
Description:
Biologists who study the fungus Candida albicans have always assumed that this organism reproduces asexually because they have not found evidence of mating, meiosis, or a haploid stage of the life cycle. However, as Gow et al. explain in a Perspective, sequencing of the C. albicans genome has revealed the existence of a possible mating type locus. This finding has now been extended to demonstrate actual mating in the fungus (Hull et al., Magee and Magee).〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Gow, N A -- Brown, A J -- Odds, F C -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2000 Jul 14;289(5477):256-7.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen AB25 2ZD, UK. n.gow@abdn.ac.uk〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10917850" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Candida albicans/genetics/*physiology
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Chromosomes, Fungal
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Genes, Fungal
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Ploidies
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Recombination, Genetic
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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