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An ancient balancing act

Nature Reviews Genetics volume 11, pages 238–239 (2010)Cite this article

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Saccharomyces cerevisiae catabolizes galactose by using a network of seven genes. This network is conserved in the close yeast relative Saccharomyces kudriavezii, but it was thought to be non-functional in this species. To their surprise, Hittinger and colleagues found that whereas the Japanese strains of S. kudriavezii have indeed lost functionality, Portuguese strains have retained it.

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  1. Hittinger, C. T. et al. Remarkably ancient balanced polymorphisms in a multi-locus gene network. Nature17 Feb 2010 (doi:10.1038/nature08791)

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Skipper, M. An ancient balancing act. Nat Rev Genet 11, 238–239 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/nrg2770

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