Pioneer cells established by the [SWI+] prion can promote dispersal and out-crossing in yeast

Gregory A. Newby; Susan Lindquist

doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.2003476

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Pioneer cells established by the [SWI⁺] prion can promote dispersal and out-crossing in yeast

Gregory A. Newby ,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: gnewby@alum.mit.edu

Affiliations Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7869-2615

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Susan Lindquist †

† Deceased.

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision

Affiliations Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Pioneer cells established by the [SWI⁺] prion can promote dispersal and out-crossing in yeast

Gregory A. Newby,
Susan Lindquist

Published: November 14, 2017
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.2003476

About the Authors

Gregory A. Newby

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: gnewby@alum.mit.edu

http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7869-2615

Susan Lindquist

† Deceased.

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision

Affiliations Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

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