Medical Definition of Fission yeast
1.
Species of fission yeast commonly used for studies on cell cycle control because there is a distinct G2 phase to the cycle.
Only distantly related to the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae Saccharomyces cerevisiae. A further advantage is that some mammalian introns are processed correctly.
This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology
(11 Mar 2008)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fission Yeast
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