Heritable damage to yeast caused by transformation.

doi:10.1038/nbt0291-179

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Heritable damage to yeast caused by transformation.

Bio/technology (Nature Publishing Company) - 1 Feb 1991

Danhash N, Gardner D C, Oliver S G

Abstract excerpt

The introduction of plasmid DNA into yeast by transformation or electroporation, but not by cytoduction, results in the induction of a slow growth phenotype. This phenotype is inherited as a dominant Mendelian trait, which is only exhibited in the absence of the native 2 mu nuclear DNA plasmid of...

Topics

DNA
Phenotype
Plasmids
Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Selection, Genetic
Transformation, Genetic

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