Experimental evolution with yeast

Many of the difficulties of studying evolution in action can be surmounted using populations of microorganisms, such as yeast. A readily manipulated sexual system and an increasingly sophisticated array of molecular and genomic tools uniquely qualify Saccharomyces cerevisiae as an experimental subje...

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Published inFEMS yeast research Vol. 6; no. 5; pp. 685 - 691
Main Author Zeyl, Clifford
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Oxford, UK Oxford, UK : Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.08.2006
Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Oxford University Press
Subjects
adaptation
Evolution
Evolution, Molecular
experimental evolution
genomics
Mutation
Ploidies
Ploidy
recombination
Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Speciation
Yeast
yeasts
Yeasts - genetics
adaptation
experimental evolution
recombination
ploidy
speciation
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ISSN1567-1356
1567-1364
1567-1364
DOI10.1111/j.1567-1364.2006.00061.x

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Summary:Many of the difficulties of studying evolution in action can be surmounted using populations of microorganisms, such as yeast. A readily manipulated sexual system and an increasingly sophisticated array of molecular and genomic tools uniquely qualify Saccharomyces cerevisiae as an experimental subject. This minireview briefly describes some recent contributions of yeast experiments to current understanding of the evolution of ploidy, sex, mutation, and speciation.
Bibliography:http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1567-1364.2006.00061.x
Editor: Teun Boekhout
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ISSN:1567-1356
1567-1364
1567-1364
DOI:10.1111/j.1567-1364.2006.00061.x