調,Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Joseph Schacherer1, Joshua A Shapiro, Douglas M Ruderfer

  • 1Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, USA.

Nature
|February 13, 2009
PubMed
まとめ

この研究では,63種類のSaccharomyces cerevisiae菌株のゲノム変異を調査し,何百万もの単一核酸多形態と数千の削除を特定しました. これは,酵母菌の全ゲノム関連研究のための基礎を提供し,酵母菌の家畜化と起源についての洞察を明らかにします.

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