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SUBMITTER: Duan SF
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6043522 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nature communications 20180712 1
The yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae has been an essential component of human civilization because of its long global history of use in food and beverage fermentation. However, the diversity and evolutionary history of the domesticated populations of the yeast remain elusive. We show here that China/Far East Asia is likely the center of origin of the domesticated populations of the species. The domesticated populations form two major groups associated with solid- and liquid-state fermentation and ...[more]