''Saccharomyces cariocanus'', a type of
yeast
Yeasts are eukaryotic, single-celled microorganisms classified as members of the fungus kingdom. The first yeast originated hundreds of millions of years ago, and at least 1,500 species are currently recognized. They are estimated to constit ...
in the ''Saccharomyces sensu stricto'' complex.
Its
type strain is NCYC 2890T. Analyses did not confirm the previously observed
conspecific
Biological specificity is the tendency of a characteristic such as a behavior or a biochemical variation to occur in a particular species.
Biochemist Linus Pauling stated that "Biological specificity is the set of characteristics of living organis ...
ity with ''
Saccharomyces paradoxus
''Saccharomyces paradoxus'' is a wild yeast and the closest known species to the baker's yeast ''Saccharomyces cerevisiae''. It is used in population genomics and phylogenetic studies to compare its wild characteristics to laboratory yeasts.
Eco ...
''. ''S. cariocanus'' exhibits postzygotic isolation from representative strains from all known geographical populations of ''S. paradoxus'': European, Far-East Asian, North American and Hawaiian.
References
Further reading
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External links
UniProt entry
cariocanus
Yeasts used in brewing
Fungi described in 2000
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