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Journal of Heredity 2004:95(1)
© 2004 The American Genetic Association 95:90-91

Book Review

Fungal Populations and Species

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John Burnet.

Oxford University Press, New York. 2003.

The fungi that most scientists are familiar with are tame and domesticated creatures indeed. My postdoctoral advisor, Bob Mortimer, was primarily responsible for the laboratory domestication of the baker's yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, which thanks to his efforts is now a favorite organism of geneticists around the world. This simple one-celled organism is far closer to us in evolutionary time than bacteria, but it has bacteria-like advantages in a laboratory setting. Like bacteria, it can be grown in separate colonies on a petri dish of defined medium, but it can also undergo . . . [Full Text of this Article]

C. Wills

Division of Biological Sciences University of California–San Diego La Jolla, CA 92093


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