Small fitness effects and weak genetic interactions between deleterious mutations in heterozygous loci of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Genetical Research

Volumn 82, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 19-31

  Szafraniec, Krzysztof ^a   Wloch, Dominika M ^a   Sliwa, Piotr ^a   Borts, Rhona H ^b   Korona, Ryszard ^a  

^a JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESYLIC ACID ETHYL ESTER;

ARTICLE; CELL BUDDING; CELL CLONE; CELL MUTANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPISTASIS; GENE INTERACTION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GROWTH RATE; HAPLOIDY; HETEROZYGOSITY; HETEROZYGOTE; HOMOZYGOTE; LETHALITY; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; WILD TYPE; YEAST CELL;

CLONE CELLS; DIPLOIDY; ETHYL METHANESULFONATE; GENES, FUNGAL; GENES, LETHAL; GENES, RECESSIVE; HETEROZYGOTE; HOMOZYGOTE; MUTAGENS; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

SACCHAROMYCES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCETALES;

EID: 0141504246     PISSN: 00166723     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S001667230300630X     Document Type: Article

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