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The birth of a deadly yeast: tracing the evolutionary emergence of virulence traits in <i>Candida glabrata</i>
17 Dec 2015
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The yeast Candida glabrata is an opportunistic human fungal pathogen whose incidence has increased in the last two decades. Despite its name, this yeast is only distantly related to the model fungal pathogen C. albicans, and more closely related to Saccharomyces cerevisiae and other yeasts that underwent an ancient whole-genome duplication. Understanding what specific traits make C. glabrata a successful...
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