Baker's yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, is widely used as a laboratory model system. We have been studying its nearest wild relatives, S. paradoxus and S. cariocanus, in order to be able to use powerful yeast biotechnology to study natural populations.
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- Koufopanou, V., Hughes, J., Bell, G. & Burt, A. 2006. The spatial scale of genetic differentiation in a model organism: the wild yeast Saccharomyces paradoxus. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B 361: 1941-1946.
Wild yeast grows on the bark and leaves of hardwood trees.
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