Life within a community: benefit to yeast long-term survival.

Abstract

Review summarises advantages of yeast existence in multicellular communities: possibility of differentiation to specialised cell, localised apoptosis-like cell dying, lifestyle changes in populations evoked by environment, signalling between commmunities

Keywords

• yeast colonies
• stress defence mechanisms
• phenotypic switching and pathogenesis of Candida sp
• long-term survival strategies
• Saccharomyces cerevisiae