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Genetic diversity and transcriptional analysis of the bys1 gene from Blastomyces dermatitidis.
Mycopathologia - 1 Jan 2001
Bono J L, Jaber B, Fisher M A, Abuodeh R O, O'Leary-Jepson E, Scalarone G M, Smith L H
Abstract excerpt
Blastomyces dermatitidis, a pathogenic fungal organism, is able to exist in two different morphologies, a multicellular mycelium or a unicellular yeast, according to temperature, 25 degrees C and 37 degrees C respectively. The switching between morphologies must be accompanied by a cascade of signaling events in which expression of genes responsible for the change of morphology is increased or decreased. bys1, a...
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