Completion of a parasexual cycle in Candida albicans by induced chromosome loss in tetraploid strains.

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Published in EMBO J on May 15, 2003

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Richard J Bennett1, Alexander D Johnson

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1: Department of Microbiology, University of California, San Francisco 94143, USA.

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