Nature Communications (Apr 2020)

Synthetic hybrids of six yeast species

  • David Peris,
  • William G. Alexander,
  • Kaitlin J. Fisher,
  • Ryan V. Moriarty,
  • Mira G. Basuino,
  • Emily J. Ubbelohde,
  • Russell L. Wrobel,
  • Chris Todd Hittinger

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-15559-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Many industrial organisms are the result of recent or ancient allopolypoidy events. Here the authors iteratively combine the genomes of six yeast species to generate a viable hybrid.