Editing Candida albicans (section)

===Environmental stress===

Glucose starvation is a likely common environmental stress encountered by ''C. albicans'' in its natural habitat.<ref name="Guan2019">{{cite journal | vauthors = Guan G, Tao L, Yue H, Liang W, Gong J, Bing J, Zheng Q, Veri AO, Fan S, Robbins N, Cowen LE, Huang G | display-authors = 6 | title = Environment-induced same-sex mating in the yeast Candida albicans through the Hsf1-Hsp90 pathway | journal = PLOS Biology | volume = 17 | issue = 3 | pages = e2006966 | date = March 2019 | pmid = 30865631 | pmc = 6415874 | doi = 10.1371/journal.pbio.2006966 | doi-access = free }}</ref>  Glucose starvation causes an increase in [[reactive oxygen species|intracellular reactive oxygen]]. This stress can lead to mating between two individuals of the same mating type, an interaction that may be frequent in nature under stressful conditions.<ref name = Guan2019/>