An understanding of the domestication of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae has important implications for studying its evolution and diversity. Here, the authors show that Far East Asia is likely the center of origin of the domesticated populations of the yeast based on genomic and phenotypic characterization of a large collection of isolates.
- Shou-Fu Duan
- Pei-Jie Han
- Feng-Yan Bai
