Sex-Dependent Resistance to the Pathogenic Fungus Cryptococcus neoformans
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Sex-dependent resistance to the pathogenic fungus Cryptococcus neoformans.
Sex differences occur in most species and affect a variety of biological traits including morphology, behavior, and life history. The nematode Caenorhabditis elegans exists as a population of self-fertile hermaphrodites with occasional males, which differ anatomically and behaviorally from hermaphrodites. Here we show that male C. elegans also differ from hermaphrodites in their susceptibility ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Genetics
سال: 2006
ISSN: 1943-2631
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.106.056093