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Review
. 2000;1(2):REVIEWS1011.
doi: 10.1186/gb-2000-1-2-reviews1011. Epub 2000 Aug 4.

Where does fission yeast sit on the tree of life?

M Sipiczki  1
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Review

Where does fission yeast sit on the tree of life?

M Sipiczki. Genome Biol. 2000.

Abstract

The budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae and the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe are as different from each other as either is from animals: their ancestors separated about 420 to 330 million years ago. Now that S. pombe is poised to join the post-genome era, its evolutionary position should become much clearer.

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Figure 1
Figure 1
A taxonomy of fission yeasts (based on [19,20]).
Figure 2
Figure 2
A consensus phylogeny of fission yeasts. Times are (1) 1,200 million years ago (Ma); (2) 1,100 to 1,000 Ma; (3) 600 to 500 Ma; (4) 400 Ma; (5) 420 to 330 Ma; (6) 250 Ma. (Modified from [2,9,12,13,14,15,20].)
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