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Coevolution with bacteria drives the evolution of aerobic fermentation in Lachancea kluyveri.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2017
Zhou Nerve, Swamy Krishna B S, Leu Jun-Yi, McDonald Michael J, Galafassi Silvia, Compagno Concetta, Piškur Jure
Abstract excerpt
The Crabtree positive yeasts, such as Saccharomyces cerevisiae, prefer fermentation to respiration, even under fully aerobic conditions. The selective pressures that drove the evolution of this trait remain controversial because of the low ATP yield of fermentation compared to respiration. Here we propagate experimental populations of the weak-Crabtree yeast Lachancea kluyveri, in competitive co-culture with...
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