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A SMALL‐COLONY VARIANT OF CANDIDA ALBICANS
Author(s) -
Bianchi D. E.
Publication year - 1961
Publication title -
american journal of botany
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.218
H-Index - 151
eISSN - 1537-2197
pISSN - 0002-9122
DOI - 10.1002/j.1537-2197.1961.tb11675.x
Subject(s) - biology , candida albicans , cytochrome c oxidase , microbiology and biotechnology , yeast , oxidase test , corpus albicans , colony morphology , enzyme , genetics , biochemistry , bacteria
B ianchi , D. E. (San Fernando Valley State Coll., Northridge, Calif.) A small‐colony variant of Candida albicans. Amer. Jour. Bot. 48(6): 499–503. Illus. 1961.—Normal cultures of Candida albicans give rise to a small‐colony variant similar in many respects to the “petite” of Saccharomyces cerevisiae. The difference in colony size is due to a difference in the rate of cell division. They arise spontaneously from the wild‐type at a frequency of from 1–3%, and the individual cells of both types are the same size. However, unlike the “petite,” they contain the enzymes cytochrome oxidase, cytochrome b , and succinic dehydrogenase, and they respire normally.