Open AccessYeast Survive by Hedging Their Bets
Author(s) -
Robin Meadows
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
plos biology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 4.127
H-Index - 271
eISSN - 1545-7885
pISSN - 1544-9173
DOI - 10.1371/journal.pbio.1001327
Subject(s) - biology , yeast , regulator , trehalose , saccharomyces cerevisiae , range (aeronautics) , genetics , evolutionary biology , computational biology , gene , biochemistry , materials science , composite material
A new experimental approach reveals a bet hedging strategy in unstressed, clonal yeast cells, whereby they adopt a range of growth states that correlate with expression of a trehalose-synthesis regulator and predict resistance to future stress.
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