Pedigree analyses of yeast cells recovering from DNA damage allow assignment of lethal events to individual post-treatment generations.

doi:10.1093/genetics/124.1.57

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Pedigree analyses of yeast cells recovering from DNA damage allow assignment of lethal events to individual post-treatment generations.

Genetics - 1 Jan 1990

Klein F, Karwan A, Wintersberger U

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Haploid cells of Saccharomyces cerevisiae were treated with different DNA damaging agents at various doses. A study of the progeny of individual such cells (by pedigree analyses up to the third generation) allowed the assignment of lethal events to distinct post treatment generations. By microsco...

Topics

DNA Damage
Ethyl Methanesulfonate
Genes, Fungal
Genes, Lethal
Methyl Methanesulfonate
Methylnitronitrosoguanidine
Mutagens
Mutation
Nitrous Acid
Probability
Saccharomyces cerevisiae

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