Maquipucuna cloud forest in Ecuador yields new species of yeast
Tuesday, March 15, 2011 - 09:30
in Earth & Climate
In a unique collaboration between scientists from the UK, Ecuador and Réunion, a new species of yeast has been discovered growing on the fruit of an unidentified and innocuous bramble collected from the biodiversity-rich Maquipucuna cloud forest nature reserve, near Quito, in Ecuador.