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CELLULAR MICROBIOLOGY
Volume 11, Issue 12, Pages 1716-1723Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-5822.2009.01384.x
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- CFAR [AI 051519]
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Mechanisms to vary the phenotypic characteristics of fungi are diverse and can be important for their life cycle. This review summarizes phenotypic variability in fungi and divides this phenomenon into three topics: (i) morphological transitions, which are environmentally induced and involve the entire fungal population, (ii) reversible phenotypic switching between different colony morphologies, which is restricted to a small fraction of the population, and (iii) antigenic variation of surface antigens, which can be immuno-dominant epitopes happens in individual fungal cells.
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