How yeast doubled its genome, by mating between species

7 agosto 2015

The common baker’s yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) was the first non-bacterial living thing to have its genome sequenced, back in 1996. However, when the sequence of that genome emerged it appeared that the scientists were seeing double — the organism seemed to have two very different versions of many of its genes. How could this have happened?
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/08/150807144332.htm

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