Candida's arranged marriage.
Biologists who study the fungus Candida albicans have always assumed that this organism reproduces asexually because they have not found evidence of mating, meiosis, or a haploid stage of the life cycle. However, as Gow et al. explain in a Perspective, sequencing of the C. albicans genome has revealed the existence of a possible mating type locus. This finding has now been extended to demonstrate actual mating in the fungus (Hull et al., Magee and Magee).
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Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen AB25 2ZD, UK. n.gow@abdn.ac.uk
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D002176:Candida albicans / Q000235:genetics / Q000502:physiology*; D015825:Chromosomes, Fungal; D005800:Genes, Fungal; D011003:Ploidies; D011995:Recombination, Genetic