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The Yeast Spore Wall Enables Spores to Survive Passage through the Digestive Tract of Drosophila

In nature, yeasts are subject to predation by flies of the genus Drosophila. In response to nutritional starvation Saccharomyces cerevisiae differentiates into a dormant cell type, termed a spore, which is resistant to many types of environmental stress. The stress resistance of the spore is due pri...

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Main Authors: Coluccio, Alison E., Rodriguez, Rachael K., Kernan, Maurice J., Neiman, Aaron M.
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Public Library of Science 2008
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2478712/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18682732
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0002873
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