The art and design of genetic screens: Yeast

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 2, Issue 9, 2001, Pages 659-668

  Forsburg, Susan L ^a  

^a SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EUKARYOTA; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCETACEAE;

FUNGAL GENE; GENETICS; MUTATION; NOMENCLATURE; REVIEW; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES;

GENES, FUNGAL; MUTATION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; TERMINOLOGY;

EID: 0035458366     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35088500     Document Type: Review

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