The advantage of sex in evolving yeast populations

Nature

Volumn 388, Issue 6641, 1997, Pages 465-468

  Zeyl, Clifford ^a,c   Bell, Graham ^b  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MUTATION; SEX; YEAST;

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; GENETIC SELECTION; INBREEDING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEXUALITY;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; DIPLOIDY; DIRECTED MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; EVOLUTION; GALACTOSE; GENES, FUNGAL; GLUCOSE; HAPLOIDY; MUTATION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SELECTION (GENETICS); SEX;

EUKARYOTA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCETALES;

EID: 0030791414     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/41312     Document Type: Article

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