Review: to bud until death: the genetics of ageing in the yeast, Saccharomyces.

doi:10.1002/(SICI)1097-0061(19960615)12:7%3C623::AID-YEA968%3E3.0.CO;2-G

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Review: to bud until death: the genetics of ageing in the yeast, Saccharomyces.

Yeast (Chichester, England) - 15 Jun 1996

Austriaco N R

Abstract excerpt

Individual cells of the budding yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, have a limited division capacity and undergo characteristic changes as they senesce, primarily increasing both their cell size and cell cycle time. The mortality curve for ageing yeast cells can be described by the Gompertz equation...

Topics

Cell Division
Genes, Fungal
Models, Genetic
Mutation
Saccharomyces cerevisiae

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