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Science 14 July 2000:
Vol. 289. no. 5477, pp. 256 - 257
DOI: 10.1126/science.289.5477.256
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Perspectives

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MICROBIOLOGY:
Enhanced: Candida's Arranged Marriage

Neil A. R. Gow, Alistair J. P. Brown, Frank C. Odds

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).

The authors are in the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen AB25 2ZD, UK. E-mail: n.gow{at}abdn.ac.uk

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