Despite a billion years of evolution separating humans from the baker’s yeast in their refrigerators, hundreds of genes from an ancestor that the two species have in common live on nearly unchanged in them both, say biologists. The team created thriving strains of genetically engineered yeast using human genes and found that certain groups of genes are surprisingly stable over evolutionary time.
http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/~3/DMUbd9kjEi0/150521143924.htm
Partly human yeast show a common ancestor’s lasting legacy
21 mayo 2015
Volver