Traditional Norwegian Kveik Yeast: An Ancient Sister Group to Domesticated Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Michael Dondrup, Hans Geir Eiken, Atle Ove Martinussen, Lisa Karine Haugland, Rita Holdhus, David Dolan, Sushma Nagaraja Grellscheid, Snorre B. Hagen, Abdelhameed Elameen, Tor Myking
This study reanalyzes the phylogenetic position of traditional Norwegian kveik yeast within Saccharomyces cerevisiae, finding it to be an ancient clade closer to the root of the species tree.
bioRxiv · Jul 3, 2023 · PreprintGenomics