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Yeast keeps to itself

Posted on March 7th, 2007 by Jason Stajich · No Comments

Cliff Zeyl and Sally Otto present a nice review on research from the Kruglyak lab regarding evidence that Saccharomyces is primarily a selfer in nature as it outbreeds very infrequently (once in 50,000 generations). The implications of this work has relevance on the importance of sexual reproduction and recombination in natural populations.

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Categories: evolution · recombination · saccharomyces · yeast
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