Saccharomyces cerevisiae: A sexy yeast with a prion problem

Prion

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 215-220

  Kelly, Amy C ^a   Wickner, Reed B ^a  

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

Author keywords

Effective population size; Evolutionary constraint; Fitness; Outcross

Indexed keywords

PRION PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; FUNGUS GROWTH; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; OUTCROSSING; PRION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SURVIVAL;

EFFECTIVE POPULATION SIZE; EVOLUTIONARY CONSTRAINT; FITNESS; OUTCROSS;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; PRIONS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SELECTION, GENETIC;

SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 84879823171     PISSN: 19336896     EISSN: 1933690X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/pri.24845     Document Type: Article

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