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To switch or not to switch?: Phenotypic switching is sensitive to multiple inputs in a pathogenic fungus

Kevin Alby1, Richard J

  • 1Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA.

Communicative & Integrative Biology
|March 3, 2010
PubMed

Keywords:
Candida albicansWOR1epigeneticgenotoxic stressoxidative stresswhite-opaque switch

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