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Electrophoretic karyoty** as a taxonomic tool in the genusSaccharomyces

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The electrophoretic karyotypes of strains of the ten species of the yeast genusSaccharomyces (sensu Vaughan-Martini & Martini 1992) were determined by the CHEF (contour-clamped homogeneous electric field) system of pulsed field gel electrophoresis. The number of bands was found to vary from 6 to 17 and the calculated molecular weights of haploid genomes ranged from 7.9 to 14.6 Mbp. The type strains ofS. exiguus and the four species of theSaccharomyces sensu stricto complex (S. bayanus, S. cerevisiae, S. paradoxus andS. pastorianus) have genomes comprised of chromosomes of all three size classes: light (< 500 kb), medium (500–1000 kb) and heavy (> 1,000 kb).Saccharomyces kluyveri DNA has only heavy bands, while the remaining species exhibit medium and heavy chromosomes. When more than one strain of each species was examined, it was seen that while the speciesS. bayanus, S. castellii, S. cerevisiae, S. kluyveri, S. paradoxus andS. pastorianus showed uniform karyotypes,S. dairensis, S. exiguus, S. servazzii andS. unisporus comprise heterogeneous taxa.

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    Ann Vaughan-Martini, Alessandro Martini & Gianluigi Cardinali

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Vaughan-Martini, A., Martini, A. & Cardinali, G. Electrophoretic karyoty** as a taxonomic tool in the genusSaccharomyces . Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 63, 145–156 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00872389

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