Maquipucuna cloud forest in Ecuador yields new species of yeast

Tuesday, March 15, 2011 - 16:10 in Earth & Climate

In a unique collaboration between scientists from the UK, Ecuador and Reunion, 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...

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