Heritable stochastic switching revealed by single-cell genealogy

PLoS Biology

Volumn 5, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1973-1980

  Kaufmann, Benjamin B ^a,b   Yang, Qiong ^a   Mettetal, Jerome T ^a   Van Oudenaarden, Alexander ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

REGULATOR PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CELL DIVISION; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; EPIGENETICS; GENEALOGY; INHERITANCE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; STOCHASTIC MODEL; YEAST; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CYTOLOGY; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS; STATISTICS;

SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 34548686549     PISSN: 15449173     EISSN: 15457885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050239     Document Type: Article

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