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Wild yeast isolation by middle-school students reveals features of populations residing on North American oaks.
G3 (Bethesda, Md.) - 8 Jan 2025
Yeager Randi, Heasley Lydia R, Baker Nolan, Shrivastava Vatsal, Woodman Julie, McMurray Michael A
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Features of the natural life cycle of the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae were crucial to its domestication as a laboratory experimental model, especially the ability to maintain stable haploid clones and cross them at will to combine alleles via meiosis. Stable haploidy results from mutations in HO, which encodes an endonuclease required for haploid-specific mating-type switching. Previous studies found...
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