Genetic analysis of default mating behavior in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Genetics

Volumn 146, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 39-55

  Dorer, Russell ^a   Boone, Charles ^b   Kimbrough, Tyler ^a   Kim, Joshua ^a   Hartwell, Leland H ^a  

^a Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

^b SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHEROMONE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CONJUGATION; CELL FUSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; MATING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENES, FUNGAL; MUTATION; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 0030896279     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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