The social side of wild yeast

David C. Queller
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David C. Queller: MS-170, Rice University, Houston, Texas 77251-1892, USA. queller@rice.edu

Nature, 2008, vol. 456, issue 7222, 589-590

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.

Date: 2008
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