Abstract
The budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae has a long history as a model organism for studies of meiosis and the cell cycle. The popularity of this yeast as a model is in large part due to the variety of genetic and cytological approaches that can be effectively performed with the cells. Cultures of the cells can be induced to synchronously progress through meiosis and sporulation allowing large-scale gene expression and biochemical studies to be performed. Additionally, the spore tetrads resulting from meiosis make it possible to characterize the haploid products of meiosis allowing investigation of meiotic recombination and chromosome segregation. Here we describe genetic methods for analysis progression of S. cerevisiae through meiosis and sporulation with an emphasis on strategies for the genetic analysis of regulators of meiosis-specific genes.
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D.T.S. acknowledges the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) for research support from Discovery Grant numbers 03673 and 262070.
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Kassir, Y., Stuart, D.T. (2017). Genetic Approaches to Study Meiosis and Meiosis-Specific Gene Expression in Saccharomyces cerevisiae . In: Stuart, D. (eds) Meiosis. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 1471. Humana Press, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-6340-9_1
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