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Molecular markers reveal that population structure of the human pathogen Candida albicans exhibits both clonality and recombination.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 29 Oct 1996
Gräser Y, Volovsek M, Arrington J, Schönian G, Presber W, Mitchell T G, Vilgalys R
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The life history of Candida albicans presents an enigma: this species is thought to be exclusively asexual, yet strains show extensive phenotypic variation. To address the population genetics of C. albicans, we developed a genetic typing method for codominant single-locus markers by screening randomly amplified DNA for single-strand conformation polymorphisms. DNA fragments amplified by arbitrary primers were...
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