Candida's arranged marriage
- PMID: 10917850
- DOI: 10.1126/science.289.5477.256
Candida's arranged marriage
Abstract
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).
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Evidence for mating of the "asexual" yeast Candida albicans in a mammalian host.Science. 2000 Jul 14;289(5477):307-10. doi: 10.1126/science.289.5477.307. Science. 2000. PMID: 10894780
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Induction of mating in Candida albicans by construction of MTLa and MTLalpha strains.Science. 2000 Jul 14;289(5477):310-3. doi: 10.1126/science.289.5477.310. Science. 2000. PMID: 10894781
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