Resistance to UVB radiation in antarctic yeasts

Redox Report

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 312-314

  Tsimako, Masego ^a   Guffogg, Sharon ^a   Thomas Hall, Skye ^a   Watson, Kenneth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIOXIDANT; FREE RADICAL;

ANTARCTICA; ARTICLE; CANDIDA TROPICALIS; CELL DAMAGE; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; NONHUMAN; PICHIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIOSENSITIVITY; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; ULTRAVIOLET B RADIATION; WILD TYPE; YEAST CELL; ZYGOSACCHAROMYCES ROUXII;

ANTARCTIC REGIONS; ANTIOXIDANTS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

CANDIDA; CANDIDA TROPICALIS; PICHIA; SACCHAROMYCES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; ZYGOSACCHAROMYCES ROUXII;

EID: 0036925168     PISSN: 13510002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/135100002125000866     Document Type: Article

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