MICROBIAL GENETICS Love the one you're with

被引：6

作者：

Heitman, Joseph ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Duke Univ, Med Ctr, Dept Mol Genet & Microbiol, Durham, NC 27710 USA

来源：

NATURE | 2009年 / 460卷 / 7257期

关键词：

CANDIDA-ALBICANS; CRYPTOCOCCUS-NEOFORMANS; CYCLE;

D O I：

10.1038/460807a

中图分类号：

O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];

学科分类号：

07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;

摘要：

Candida albicans is notorious as an opportunistic microbe that causes thrush and serious systemic disease. For geneticists, however, it offers continuing revelations into the wondrously varied sex lives of fungi.

引用

页码：807 / 808

页数：2

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