Whole-Genome Sequencing and Intraspecific Analysis of the Yeast Species Lachancea quebecensis.

ABSTRACT: The gold standard in yeast population genomics has been the model organism Saccharomyces cerevisiae. However, the exploration of yeast species outside the Saccharomyces genus is essential to broaden the understanding of genome evolution. Here, we report the analyses of whole-genome sequences of nineisolates from the recently described yeast species Lachancea quebecensis. The genome of one isolate was assembled and annotated, and the intraspecific variability within L. quebecensis was surveyed by comparing the sequences from the eight other isolates to this reference sequence. Our study revealed that these strains harbor genomes with an average nucleotide diversity of π = 2 × 10(-3) which is slightly lower, although on the same order of magnitude, as that previously determined for S. cerevi

SUBMITTER: Freel KC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4823976 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature