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The ecology and evolution of non-domesticated Saccharomyces species.
Yeast (Chichester, England) - 1 Dec 2014
Boynton Primrose J, Greig Duncan
Abstract excerpt
Yeast researchers need model systems for ecology and evolution, but the model yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae is not ideal because its evolution has been affected by domestication. Instead, ecologists and evolutionary biologists are focusing on close relatives of S. cerevisiae, the seven species in the genus Saccharomyces. The best-studied Saccharomyces yeast, after S. cerevisiae, is S. paradoxus, an oak tree...
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