title: Where does fission yeast sit on the tree of life?
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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Genetics, University of Debrecen and Research Group for Microbial Development, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Debrecen, H-4010 Hungary. lipovy@tigris.klte.hu
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Sipiczki
mesh_terms: D002965:Classification; D019143:Evolution, Molecular; D016681:Genome, Fungal; D010802:Phylogeny; D012568:Schizosaccharomyces / Q000145:classification / Q000235:genetics* / Q000502:physiology; D013997:Time Factors