Candida albicans SC5314 | Ca_a

Saccharomycetes (Species Group)

[ Opisthokonta | Fungi | Dikarya | . . .
. . . | Candida/Lodderomyces clade | Candida | Candida albicans ]

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Taxonomy: Eukaryota | Opisthokonta | Fungi | Dikarya | Ascomycota | saccharomyceta | Saccharomycotina | Saccharomycetes | Saccharomycetales | Debaryomycetaceae | Candida/Lodderomyces clade | Candida | Candida albicans Synonym: Candida claussenii (obsolete), Candida langeroni (obsolete), Candida stellatoidea (obsolete), Monilia albicans (obsolete) Comment: Candida albicans is one of the most commonly encountered human pathogens, causing a wide variety of infections ranging from mucosal infections in generally healthy persons to life-threatening systemic infections in individuals with impaired immunity. Candida albicans differs in various respects from other genome sequences in that both copies of the genome are explicitly represented. Similar to many other Candida species, a CUG codon in Candida albicans corresponds to a serine residue instead of the universal leucine. Go to NCBI Taxonomy (237561) Encyclopedia of life Wikipedia Projects: Candida Genome Database: A resource for genomic sequence data and gene and protein information for Candida albicans National Center for Biotechnology Information: NCBI Fungi Genomes Project Stanford Genome Technology Center: Sequencing of Candida Albicans Publications: Butler G, Rasmussen MD, Lin MF et. al. (2009) Evolution of pathogenicity and sexual reproduction in eight Candida genomes. Nature 459, 657-662. 10.1038/nature08064 van het Hoog M, Rast TJ, Martchenko M et. al. (2007) Assembly of the Candida albicans genome into sixteen supercontigs aligned on the eight chromosomes. Genome Biol 8, R52. 10.1186/gb-2007-8-4-r52 Braun BR, van Het Hoog M, d'Enfert C et. al. (2005) A human-curated annotation of the Candida albicans genome. PLoS Genet 1, 36-57. 10.1371/journal.pgen.0010001 Show all 4 Publications