Unpredictable fitness transitions between haploid and diploid strains of the genetically loaded yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Genetics

Volumn 151, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 77-85

  Korona, Ryszard ^a  

^a JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENOTYPE; HOMOZYGOTE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; YEAST;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; HETEROZYGOTE; HOMOZYGOTE; MUTATION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0032948292     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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