Behavioural ecology: The social side of wild yeast

David C. Queller

doi:10.1038/456589a

Behavioural ecology: The social side of wild yeast

David C. Queller

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Abstract

The workhorse of cell biology, yeast, is a surprisingly cooperative organism. It uses an unusual means of identifying partners - a 'green-beard gene', which encodes a tag that must match among cooperating cells.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	589-590
Number of pages	2
Journal	Nature
Volume	456
Issue number	7222
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/456589a
State	Published - Dec 4 2008

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