Genetic control of conventional and pheromone-stimulated biofilm formation in Candida albicans.

Candida albicans can stochastically switch between two phenotypes, white and opaque. Opaque cells are the sexually competent form of C. albicans and therefore undergo efficient polarized growth and mating in the presence of pheromone. In contrast, white cells cannot mate, but are induced - under a s...

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Main Authors: Ching-Hsuan Lin, Shail Kabrawala, Emily P Fox, Clarissa J Nobile, Alexander D Johnson, Richard J Bennett
Format: article
Language:EN
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/99f8335be0dd48869c44b77f410ee780
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