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Phenotypic switching and mating type switching of Candida glabrata at sites of colonization.
Infection and immunity - 1 Dec 2003
Brockert Paula J, Lachke Salil A, Srikantha Thyagarajan, Pujol Claude, Galask Rudolph, Soll David R
Abstract excerpt
Candida glabrata switches spontaneously at high frequency among the following four graded phenotypes discriminated on agar containing 1 mM CuSO(4): white, light brown, dark brown (DB), and very dark brown. C. glabrata also contains three mating type loci with a configuration similar to that of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae mating type cassette system, suggesting it may also undergo cassette switching at the...
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