ReviewCurrent opinion in microbiology2015
The parasexual lifestyle of Candida albicans.
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- Host skin lipids triggerbioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Distinct properties of human pathogenicmSystems · 2026Article
- Inferring fungal cis-regulatory networks from genome sequences via unsupervised and interpretable representation learning.Genetics · 2026Article
- Genetic and environmental control of parasexual reproduction in the pathogenicMicrobiology and molecular biology reviews : MMBR · 2025Review
- Evolution and strain diversity advance exploration ofmSphere · 2024Review
- Frequent horizontal chromosome transfer between asexual fungal insect pathogens.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024Article
- Genetic Diversity of Human Fungal Pathogens.Current clinical microbiology reports · 2023Article
- Genome-wide quantification of contributions to sexual fitness identifies genes required for spore viability and health in fission yeast.PLoS genetics · 2022Article
- Genome plasticity driven by aneuploidy and loss of heterozygosity inMicrobial genomics · 2022Article
- Microevolution ofeLife · 2022Article
- Filament Negative RegulatorJournal of fungi (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- CRISPR-Mediated Genome Editing in the Human Fungal Pathogen C. albicans.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2022Article
- Starvation-induced cell fusion and heterokaryosis frequently escape imperfect allorecognition systems in an asexual fungal pathogen.BMC biology · 2021Article
- Interspecific hybridization as a driver of fungal evolution and adaptation.Nature reviews. Microbiology · 2021Review
- SpRY Cas9 Can Utilize a Variety of Protospacer Adjacent Motif Site Sequences To Edit the Candida albicans Genome.mSphere · 2021Article
- Signal-mediated localization of Candida albicans pheromone response pathway components.G3 (Bethesda, Md.) · 2021Article
- Spontaneous cell fusions as a mechanism of parasexual recombination in tumour cell populations.Nature ecology & evolution · 2021Article
- Unbelievable but True: Epigenetics and Chromatin in Fungi.Trends in genetics : TIG · 2021Review
- Genomic evidence for a hybrid origin of the yeast opportunistic pathogen Candida albicans.BMC biology · 2020Article
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Abstract
Candida albicans is both a prevalent human commensal and the most commonly encountered human fungal pathogen. This lifestyle is dependent on the ability of the fungus to undergo rapid genetic and epigenetic changes, often in response to specific environmental cues. A parasexual cycle in C. albicans has been defined that includes several unique properties when compared to the related model yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Novel features include strict regulation of mating via a phenotypic switch, enhanced conjugation within a sexual biofilm, and a program of concerted chromosome loss in place of a conventional meiosis. It is expected that several of these adaptations co-evolved with the ability of C. albicans to colonize the mammalian host.
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