Antifungal drug resistance evoked via RNAi-dependent epimutations

Calo, Silvia, Shertz-Wall, Cecelia, Lee, Soo Chan, Bastidas, Robert J., Nicolás, Francisco E., Granek, Joshua A., Mieczkowski, Piotr, Torres-Martínez, Santiago, Ruiz-Vázquez, Rosa M., Cardenas, Maria E., Heitman, Joseph·2014·Nature
DOI 10.1038/nature13575

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