Where does fission yeast sit on the tree of life?
Open Access
- 1 January 2000
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Springer Nature in Genome Biology
Abstract
The budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae and the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe are as different from each other as either is from animals: their ancestors separated about 420 to 330 million years ago. Now that S. pombe is poised to join the post-genome era, its evolutionary position should become much clearer.Keywords
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