Fungal mating: Candida albicans flips a switch to get in the mood |
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Authors: | Hull Christina M Heitman Joseph |
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Affiliation: | Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, HHMI, 321 CARL Building, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710, USA. |
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Abstract: | 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. |
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