mSphere of Influence: the Wild Genetic Diversity of Our Closest Yeast Companions

ABSTRACT Douda Bensasson uses the population genomics of model yeast species to understand how wild yeast colonize new environments, such as humans or their food. In this mSphere of Influence article, she reflects on how the discovery of “Surprisingly diverged populations of Saccharomyces cerevisiae...

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Autor principal: Douda Bensasson
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Publicado: American Society for Microbiology 2019
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Sumario:ABSTRACT Douda Bensasson uses the population genomics of model yeast species to understand how wild yeast colonize new environments, such as humans or their food. In this mSphere of Influence article, she reflects on how the discovery of “Surprisingly diverged populations of Saccharomyces cerevisiae in natural environments remote from human activity” (Q.-M. Wang, W.-Q. Liu, G. Liti, S.-A. Wang, and F.-Y. Bai, Mol Ecol 21:5404–5417, 2012, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-294X.2012.05732.x) showed that a field survey and population genetic analysis of old growth forests could “unveil the hidden part of the iceberg” of natural variation in S. cerevisiae that went unnoticed for over a hundred years of yeast research.