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Support for the prion hypothesis for inheritance of a phenotypic trait in yeast

M M Patino1, J J Liu, J R Glover

  • 1Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the Department of Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology, University of Chicago, 5841 South Maryland Avenue, Chicago, IL 60637, USA.

Science (New York, N.Y.)
|August 2, 1996
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