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The closely related species Candida albicans and Candida dubliniensis can mate.
Eukaryotic cell - 1 Aug 2004
Pujol Claude, Daniels Karla J, Lockhart Shawn R, Srikantha Thyagarajan, Radke Joshua B, Geiger Jeremy, Soll David R
Abstract excerpt
Because Candida dubliniensis is closely related to Candida albicans, we tested whether it underwent white-opaque switching and mating and whether white-opaque switching depended on MTL homozygosity and mating depended on switching, as they do in C. albicans. We also tested whether C. dubliniensis could mate with C. albicans. Sequencing revealed that the MTLalpha locus of C. dubliniensis was highly similar to that...
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