Nucleic Acid Homologies Among Species of Saccharomyces
- 1 February 1970
- journal article
- Published by American Society for Microbiology in Journal of Bacteriology
- Vol. 101 (2), 505-12
- https://doi.org/10.1128/jb.101.2.505-512.1970
Abstract
Evolutionary divergence among species of the yeast genus Saccharomyces was estimated from measurements of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA)/DNA and ribosomal ribonucleic acid (RNA)/DNA homology. Much diversity was found in the DNA base sequences with several species showing little or no homology to the three reference species, S. cerevisiae, S. lactis, and S. fragilis. These three reference species also showed little or no homology to each other. On the other hand the diversity among ribosomal RNA base sequences was small since most species showed a high degree of homology to the reference species. The arrangement of species based on ribosomal RNA homologies agrees in most cases with current taxonomic groupings. A yeast hybrid (S. fragilis x S. lactis) was shown to contain two nonhomologous genomes. A minimum genome size of 9.2 x 10(9) daltons for S. cerevisiae was calculated from the rate of DNA renaturation.Keywords
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