Modeling growth and telomere dynamics in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Journal of Theoretical Biology

Volumn 263, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 353-359

  Olofsson, Peter ^a   Bertuch, Alison A ^b  

^a TRINITY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Branching process; Fibonacci sequence; Telomere; Yeast

Indexed keywords

TELOMERASE;

CELL ORGANELLE; ESTIMATION METHOD; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; MODELING; PROBABILITY; YEAST;

ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CELL CYCLE; CELL POPULATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNGUS GROWTH; LIFESPAN; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TELOMERE;

CELL CYCLE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TELOMERE;

SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 76749166244     PISSN: 00225193     EISSN: 10958541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2009.12.004     Document Type: Article

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