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Effects of age on meiosis in budding yeast.
Developmental cell - 1 Jun 2009
Boselli Monica, Rock Jeremy, Unal Elçin, Levine Stuart S, Amon Angelika
Abstract excerpt
In humans, the frequency with which meiotic chromosome mis-segregation occurs increases with age. Whether age-dependent meiotic defects occur in other organisms is unknown. Here, we examine the effects of replicative aging on meiosis in budding yeast. We find that aged mother cells show a decreased ability to initiate the meiotic program and fail to express the meiotic inducer IME1. The few aged mother cells that...
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