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Love the one you're with

Candida albicans is notorious as an opportunistic microbe that causes thrush and serious systemic disease. For geneticists, however, it offers continuing revelations into the wondrously varied sex lives of fungi.

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Figure 1: Opposite-sex and same-sex mating in Candida albicans.
Figure 2: Same-sex mating in two pathogenic fungi.

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Heitman, J. Love the one you're with. Nature 460, 807–808 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/460807a

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