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Fungal biology: Multiple mating strategies

18:16 EST 30 Jan 2013 | Nature Publishing

Unusual strains of the pathogen Candida albicans have been found that contain a single set of chromosomes. Formation of such haploid strains weeds out damaged copies of genes to promote evolution in the human body.

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