Parasex generates highly recombinant progeny in Candida albicans with increased virulence.

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Candida albicans is a major human fungal pathogen that reproduces by mitotic growth of diploid cells but can also undergo a parasexual cycle. The latter involves an uncoordinated process of ploidy reduction via aberrant mitotic divisions following the fusion of opposite- or same-sex cells. The ability of parasex to recapitulate the genome plasticity of meiosis remains largely unclear. Here we induced parasexual...

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