Microarray experiment of Candida albicans candidalysin mutants in yeast and hypha morphology
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ORGANISM(S): Candida albicans
SUBMITTER: Sascha Brunke
PROVIDER: E-MTAB-13349 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
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