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Abstract
Following a short (3 h) period of carbon starvation, exponential phase yeast cells of Candida albicans rapidly (T50 45 min) formed germ tubes in a glucose/ammonium ion solution. The presence of both a sugar (glucose, sucrose or galactose) and a nitrogen source (ammonium ion or an amino acid metabolized via glutamate) was critical for morphogenesis.Entities:
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Year: 1988 PMID: 3047355
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Med Vet Mycol ISSN: 0268-1218