Advances in measuring lifespan in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae.
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SUBMITTER: Minois N
PROVIDER: S-EPMC544282 | biostudies-literature | 2005 Jan
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Advances in measuring lifespan in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae.
Minois Nadège N Frajnt Magdalena M Wilson Chris C Vaupel James W JW
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20041229 2
Much research aimed at discovering the genetic bases of longevity focuses on the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Unfortunately, yeast researchers use a definition of longevity not applied to other species. We propose here a method that makes it possible to estimate for yeast the same measures of longevity calculated for other species. We also show that the conventional method (equating longevity with the number of offspring) is only an approximate measure of true chronological lifespan. ...[more]
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