Domestication and deep lineage divergence define two discrete trajectories in Kluyveromyces marxianus
Jesús Martín Moreno-Hernández, Jolien Smets, Ana Lilia Torres‐Machorro, Luis Fernando García-Ortega, J. Abraham Avelar‐Rivas, Raúl A. Ortiz‐Merino, Manuel Reinhart Kirchmayr, Anna Muszewska, Lucía Morales, Kevin J. Verstrepen, Alexander DeLuna, Eugenio Mancera
The paper analyzes 178 genomes of Kluyveromyces marxianus to show two distinct evolutionary trajectories within the species, one linked to domestication and the other to deep lineage divergence.
bioRxiv · Apr 29, 2026 · PreprintEvolutionary Biology