deletion does not have major impacts on white opaque switching, filamentation, or virulence.

is the most prevalent human fungal pathogen, and can be especially dangerous to immunocompromised individuals. One key aspect of virulence is morphological plasticity. can undergo a number of distinct morphological changes and these changes are controlled by complex transcriptional networks. The transcription factor Ume6 is an important member of these networks, playing an essential role mediating filamentation. , however encodes a second homolog, . is highly conserved in the CTG fungal clade, but the role of in biology is unknown. Here we truncate and delete . We find Ume7 is dispensable for growth and filamentation. We also find that deletion does not have major consequences on virulence or white opaque switching. Our results suggest that under standard laboratory conditions deletion of does not have large effects on phenotype leaving its role in biology undefined.