Includes bibliographical references and index.

Fungal molecular pathogenesis : what can it do and why do we need it ? / John R. Perfect and Arturo Casadevall -- Sex, MAT, and the evolutio n of fungal virulence / James A. Fraser and Joseph Heitman -- Postgenom ic strategies for genetic analysis : insight from Saccharomyces cerevis iae and Candida albicans / Clarissa J. Nobile and Aaron P. Mitchell -- Candida albicans hypha formation and virulence / Paula Sundstrom -- The conversion from classical studies in fungal pathogenesis to the molecu lar era / Kyung J. Kwon-Chung and Brian L. Wickes -- Mating and parasex ual genetics in Candida albicans / Mathew Miller and Alexander Johnson -- The mating-type locus and mating of Candida albicans and Candida gla brata / David R. Soll -- Evolution of human pathogenic fungi : phylogen ies and species / John W. Taylor -- Establishment of cell identity in p athogenic fungi / Christina M. Hull -- Signal transduction in the inter actions of fungal pathogens and mammalian hosts / Malcolm Whiteway and Catherine Bachewich -- Function and regulation of adhesin gene families in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Candida albicans, and Candida glabrata / Irene Castaäno, Alejandro de las Peänas, and Brendan P. Cormack --