Mismatch repair and the accumulation of deleterious mutations influence the competitive advantage of MAT (mating type) heterozygosity in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Genetical Research

Volumn 71, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 1-10

  Selk, Esther ^a   Wills, Christopher ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL DNA;

ARTICLE; BASE MISPAIRING; COMPETITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA REPAIR; FUNGAL GENETICS; GENE MUTATION; HETEROZYGOSITY; MATING TYPE; NONHUMAN; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

DNA REPAIR; HETEROZYGOTE; HOMOZYGOTE; MUTATION; NUCLEIC ACID HETERODUPLEXES; PEPTIDES; PHEROMONES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

FUNGI; MYXOGASTRIA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0031860787     PISSN: 00166723     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S001667239700308X     Document Type: Article

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