Sex, prions, and plasmids in yeast

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 40, 2012, Pages

  Kelly, Amy C ^a   Shewmaker, Frank P ^b   Kryndushkin, Dmitry ^b   Wickner, Reed B ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DIABETES AND DIGESTIVE AND KIDNEY DISEASES   (United States)

^b UNIFORMED SERVICES UNIVERSITY OF THE HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

Population genetics; Two micron DNA

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL PROTEIN; RNQ1 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; DNA POLYMORPHISM; GENE LOCUS; HETEROZYGOSITY; MATING; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRION; PRION DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE;

AMYLOID; BASE SEQUENCE; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; GENETICS, POPULATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PLASMIDS; PRIONS; REPRODUCTION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SELECTION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEX; YEASTS;

EID: 84867049819     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1213449109     Document Type: Article

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