The natural diversity and ecology of fission yeast

Abstract While the fission yeast is a powerful model of eukaryote biology, there have been few studies of quantitative genetics, phenotypic or genetic diversity. Here I survey the small collection of fission yeast diversity research. I discuss what we can infer about the ecology and origins of Schizosaccharomyces pombe from microbiology field studies and the few strains that have been collected. Fission yeast has been intensively study in the laboratory ‐ but we know very little about its life in natural environments. Of course, it must have had a natural origin somewhere. Here I discuss what we know about wild fission yeasts; their genetics, genomics and the little we know about their natural environments.
Source: Yeast - Category: Molecular Biology Authors: Tags: BUDDING TOPIC Source Type: research