Evolution of Fluconazole-Resistant Candida albicans Strains by Drug-Induced Mating Competence and Parasexual Recombination

Evolution of Fluconazole-Resistant Candida albicans Strains by Drug-Induced Mating Competence and Parasexual Recombination

Sexual reproduction is an important mechanism in the evolution of species, since it allows the combination of advantageous traits of individual members in a population. The pathogenic yeast Candida albicans is a diploid organism that normally propagates in a clonal fashion, because heterozygosity at...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Christina Popp, Bernardo Ramírez-Zavala, Sonja Schwanfelder, Ines Krüger, Joachim Morschhäuser
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2019-02-01
Series:mBio
Subjects:
Candida albicans
drug resistance evolution
mating
parasexual recombination
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1128/mBio.02740-18

Similar Items

Similar Items