Our first Antarctic yeast genome is here!
Earlier this year we made a collaboration with the Department
of Energy, Joint Genome Institute (JGI) to determine the genome and
transcriptome of two Antarctic yeasts, Cryptococcus
vishniacii and Diozegia cryoxerica. The first one has been completed and so now
begins the hard and long task of gene annotation and digging through the data
to find out how these organisms can survive in such cold and dry habitats.
Pictures of the Wright Valley. That is the normal
habitat of Cryptococcus vishniacii as
these yeasts are typically found in some of the driest areas.
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