Loss is more: Today's budding yeasts shed traits from their 400-million-year-old ancestor
Thursday, November 8, 2018 - 11:10
in Biology & Nature
On their way to decoding the genome of every organism in a major branch of the tree of life—that of the humble budding yeasts—a team of evolutionary biologists successfully reconstructed the genomic and metabolic characteristics of the last common ancestor of today's more than 1,000 species of the organism.