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Reproductive potential and instability of the rDNA region of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae yeast: Common or separate mechanisms of regulation?
Experimental gerontology - 1 Nov 2016
Zadrag-Tecza Renata, Skoneczna Adrianna
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The yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae is a unicellular organism commonly used as a model to explain mechanisms of aging in multicellular organisms. It is used as a model organism for both replicative and chronological aging. Replicative aging is defined as the number of daughter cells produced by an individual cell during its life. A widely accepted hypothesis assumes that replicative aging of yeast is related to...
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