Expression levels of virulence-related genes in planktonic cells of C. albicans SC5314 (WT) and C. albicans HLC54 (HM).

The data were obtained by quantitative real time RT-PCR at three time points (90 min, 24 h and 48 h). Results are the mean ± SD values of three independent experiments conducted on different days.ns : p>0.05;*p**p***pThe arrows refer to up/down regulation of mRNA expression levels of virulence-related genes between the wild type C. albicans SC5314 (WT) and its corresponding hyphal mutant HLC54 (HM).