Speciation driven by hybridization and chromosomal plasticity in a wild yeast
Jean-Baptiste Leducq, Lou Nielly-Thibault, Guillaume Charron, Chris Eberlein, Jukka-Pekka Verta, Pedram Samani, Kayla Sylvester, Chris Todd Hittinger, Graham Bell, Christian R Landry
The paper identifies homoploid hybrid speciation in Saccharomyces paradoxus yeast through chromosomal rearrangements and hybridization following secondary contact.
Nature Microbiology · Jan 11, 2016Peer-reviewedGenomics