SMALL-SIZED MUTANTS OF SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE

1 Department of Genetics, Lincoln Place Gate, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
2 Department of Genetics, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN, U.K.

The isolation of mutants of Saccharomyces cerevisiae that divide at approximately half the size of the wild type is described. Three mutants have been isolated in which the small size at bud initiation is due to a mutation in a single nuclear gene.

Submitted on April 22, 1980
Revised on August 15, 1980




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