Booze Buzz: Insect Guts Serve as Love Nests for Brewer's Yeast
Monday, January 18, 2016 - 17:10
in Biology & Nature
The yeast that brews up wine, beer and bread has sex in wasp intestines, say researchers who found the microbes hybridizing inside the insects' guts. The finding could one day help unearth new industrially important strains of yeast, scientists added.