Topic Introduction

Introduction to Fission Yeast as a Model System

  1. Paul Nurse1
  1. Cell Cycle Laboratory, The Francis Crick Research Institute, London WC2A 3LY, United Kingdom

    Abstract

    Here, we briefly outline the history of fission yeast, its life cycle, and aspects of its biology that make it a useful model organism for studying problems of eukaryotic molecular and cell biology.

    Footnotes

    • 1 Correspondence: Jacqueline.Hayles{at}crick.ac.uk; paul.nurse{at}crick.ac.uk

    • From the Fission Yeast collection, edited by Iain M. Hagan, Antony M. Carr, Agnes Grallert, and Paul Nurse.

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