title: Ten years of the Génolevures Consortium: a brief history.
abstract: We report the early phase of yeast comparative genomics conducted by a group of seven French CNRS laboratories: the Génolevures Consortium. This first multispecies comparison of Hemiascomycetes (now called Saccharomycotina) opened the way to yeast evolutionary genomics. This analysis indicates that yeasts are powerful organisms to decipher the different mechanisms acting to reshape the genome of eukaryotes during long evolution periods. This initial DNA approach reveals how biodiversity could be characterized with robust data.
authors.affiliation: CNRS UMR 7156, Laboratoire Génétique Moléculaire Génomique Microbiologie, Université de Strasbourg, Institut de Botanique, 28 rue Goethe, 67083 Strasbourg cedex, France. jlsouciet@unistra.fr
authors.forename: Jean-Luc
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Souciet
mesh_terms: D001203:Ascomycota / Q000235:genetics*; D044822:Biodiversity; D030541:Databases, Genetic / Q000266:history*; D019143:Evolution, Molecular; D016681:Genome, Fungal; D023281:Genomics; D049674:History, 21st Century; D012440:Saccharomyces / Q000235:genetics; D026801:Synteny