Under the microscope: Are yeasts free-living unicellular eukaryotes?

Letters in Applied Microbiology

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 445-447

  Dickinson, J Richard ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL-TO-CELL COMMUNICATION; FREE LIVINGS;

YEAST;

ALCOHOL;

COMMUNICATION; EUKARYOTE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; YEAST;

APOPTOSIS; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CELL COMMUNICATION; EUKARYOTE; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGUS; LIFESTYLE; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SPOROGENESIS; YEAST; EUKARYOTIC CELL; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY;

CANDIDA ALBICANS; EUKARYOTA; FUNGI; PROTISTA; PROTOFUNGI; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

CELL COMMUNICATION; EUKARYOTIC CELLS; YEASTS;

EID: 28444467037     PISSN: 02668254     EISSN: 1472765X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1472-765X.2005.01798.x     Document Type: Review

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