Revisiting the Taxonomic Synonyms and Populations of Saccharomyces cerevisiae-Phylogeny, Phenotypes, Ecology and Domestication.

ABSTRACT: Saccharomyces cerevisiae-the most emblematic and industrially relevant yeast-has a long list of taxonomical synonyms. Formerly considered as distinct species, some of the synonyms represent variants with important industrial implications, like Saccharomyces boulardii or Saccharomyces diastaticus, but with an unclear status, especially among the fermentation industry, the biotechnology community and biologists not informed on taxonomic matters. Here, we use genomics to investigate a group of 45 reference strains (type strains) of former Saccharomyces species that are currently regarded as conspecific with S. cerevisiae. We show that these variants are distributed across the phylogenetic spectrum of domesticated lineages of S. cerevisiae, with emphas

SUBMITTER: Pontes A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7356373 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature