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Applied and Environmental Microbiology, July 2006, p. 5122-5125, Vol. 72, No. 7
0099-2240/06/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/AEM.00293-06
Copyright © 2006, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

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Transfer of Genetic Material between Pathogenic and Food-Borne Yeasts

Marek Mentel,1,{dagger} Mário Spírek,1,{ddagger} Dorte Jørck-Ramberg,1 and Jure Piskur1,2*

Biocentrum-DTU, Technical University of Denmark, Building 301, 2800 Lyngby, Denmark,1 Department of Cell and Organism Biology, Lund University, Sölvegatan 35, SE-223 62 Lund, Sweden2

Received 6 February 2006/ Accepted 26 April 2006

Many pathogenic yeast species are asexual and therefore not involved in intra- or interspecies mating. However, high-frequency transfer of plasmid DNA was observed when pathogenic and food-borne yeasts were grown together. This property could play a crucial role in the spread of virulence and drug resistance factors among yeasts.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Department of Cell and Organism Biology, Lund University, Sölvegatan 35, SE-223 62 Lund, Sweden. Phone: 46 46 222 83 73. Fax: 46 46 222 41 13. E-mail: jure.piskur{at}cob.lu.se.

{dagger} Present address: Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University, Mlynská dolina CH-1, 842 15 Bratislava, Slovakia.

{ddagger} Present address: Department of Chromosome Biology, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Vienna, Dr. Bohr Gasse 1, A-1030 Vienna, Austria.

Applied and Environmental Microbiology, July 2006, p. 5122-5125, Vol. 72, No. 7
0099-2240/06/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/AEM.00293-06
Copyright © 2006, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.



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