Evolutionary role of interspecies hybridization and genetic exchanges in yeasts

Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews

Volumn 76, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 721-739

  Morales, Lucia ^a   Dujon, Bernard ^a  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASIDIOMYCETES; CELL VIABILITY; FUNGAL GENOME; GENETIC INCOMPATIBILITY; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; INTERSPECIFIC HYBRID; INTERSPECIFIC HYBRIDIZATION; INTROGRESSION; MATING; MEMBRANE FUSION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PROTOPLAST; REVIEW; SACCHAROMYCES; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; YEAST;

BASIDIOMYCOTA; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; GENETIC SPECIATION; HYBRIDIZATION, GENETIC; SACCHAROMYCES; YEASTS;

EID: 84870698548     PISSN: 10922172     EISSN: 10985557     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MMBR.00022-12     Document Type: Review

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