| NAC | non-albicans Candida |
| CRISPR | clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats |
| FRT | flippase recognition target |
| FLP | recombinase flippase |
| Cas | CRISPR-associated |
| crRNAs | CRISPR-derived RNAs |
| sgRNA | synthetic guide RNA |
| DSB | double-stranded break |
| tracrRNA | trans-activating CRISPR RNA |
| PAM | protospacer adjacent motif |
| HDR | homology-directed repair |
| NHEJ | non-homologous end joining |
| indels | insertions or deletions |
| CRIME | CRISPR-mediated marker excision |
| CRISPRa | CRISPR activation |
| CRISPRi | CRISPR interference |
| dCas9 | endonuclease-dead Cas9 |
| ssDNA | single-stranded DNA |
| ERA | enzymatic recombinase amplification |
| EPIC | Episomal Plasmid-Induced Cas9 system |
| GRACE | Gene Replacement and Conditional Expression |