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<fungus>
<mycology> 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)
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