Genome Diversity and Evolution in the Budding Yeasts (Saccharomycotina).

ABSTRACT: Considerable progress in our understanding of yeast genomes and their evolution has been made over the last decade with the sequencing, analysis, and comparisons of numerous species, strains, or isolates of diverse origins. The role played by yeasts in natural environments as well as in artificial manufactures, combined with the importance of some species as model experimental systems sustained this effort. At the same time, their enormous evolutionary diversity (there are yeast species in every subphylum of Dikarya) sparked curiosity but necessitated further efforts to obtain appropriate reference genomes. Today, yeast genomes have been very informative about basic mechanisms of evolution, speciation, hybridization, domestication, as well as about the molecular machineries underlying them

SUBMITTER: Dujon BA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5499181 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature