Fungal mating: Candida albicans flips a switch to get in the mood.
The fungal pathogen Candida albicans can mate under highly controlled conditions. It can also undergo phenotypic switching. A recent discovery joins these disparate processes to reveal that 'opaque' switch variants mate 10(6) times better than 'white' variants.
Hull
Christina M
CM
Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, HHMI, 321 CARL Building, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710, USA.
Heitman
Joseph
J
D002176:Candida albicans / Q000235:genetics / Q000502:physiology*; D002177:Candidiasis; D014644:Genetic Variation; D016681:Genome, Fungal; D006801:Humans; D010641:Phenotype; D012098:Reproduction