Table of Contents
1 Yeast as a Model Eukaryote
2 Information on Yeast
3 Yeast Strains
4 Growth and Life Cycles
5 The Yeast Genome
6 Genetic Nomenclature
6.1 Chromosomal Genes
6.2 Mitochondrial Gene
6.3 Non-Mendelian Determinants
7 Genetic Analyses
7.1 Overviews with Examples
7.2 Tetrad Analysis
7.3 Non-Mendelian Inheritance
8 Transformation
8.1 Yeast Vector and DNA Fragments
8.2 Synthetic Oligonucleotides
8.3 Mitochondrial Transformation
9 Yeast Vectors
9.1 YIp Vectors
9.2 YEp Vectors
9.3 YCp Vectors
10 Genes Important for Genetic Studies
10.1
URA3
and
LYS2
10.2
ADE1
and
ADE2
10.3
GAL1
Promoter
10.4
lacZ
and Other Reporters
11 Manipulating the Genome
In Vitro
with Plasmids
11.1 Cloning by Complementation
11.2 Mutagenesis
In Vitro
11.3 Two-step Gene Replacement
11.4 Gene Disruption and One-step Gene Replacement
11.5 Plasmid Shuffle
11.6 Recovering mutant alleles
12 Interactions of Genes
12.1 Heterozygosity and Dominant-negative Mutations
12.2 Intragenic Complementation
12.3 Nonallelic Non-complementation
12.4 Suppressors
12.5 Synthetic Enhancement and Epistatic Relationships
13 Genomic Analysis
14 Analyses with Yeast Systems
14.1 Two-hybrid Systems
14.2 Yeast Artificial Chromosomes (YACs)
14.3 Expression of Heterologous Protein in Yeast
Key Words
Bibliography
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