title: Lager yeast comes of age.
abstract: Alcoholic fermentations have accompanied human civilizations throughout our history. Lager yeasts have a several-century-long tradition of providing fresh beer with clean taste. The yeast strains used for lager beer fermentation have long been recognized as hybrids between two Saccharomyces species. We summarize the initial findings on this hybrid nature, the genomics/transcriptomics of lager yeasts, and established targets of strain improvements. Next-generation sequencing has provided fast access to yeast genomes. Its use in population genomics has uncovered many more hybridization events within Saccharomyces species, so that lager yeast hybrids are no longer the exception from the rule. These findings have led us to propose network evolution within Saccharomyces species. This "web of life" recognizes the ability of closely related species to exchange DNA and thus drain from a combined gene pool rather than be limited to a gene pool restricted by speciation. Within the domesticated lager yeasts, two groups, the Saaz and Frohberg groups, can be distinguished based on fermentation characteristics. Recent evidence suggests that these groups share an evolutionary history. We thus propose to refer to the Saaz group as Saccharomyces carlsbergensis and to the Frohberg group as Saccharomyces pastorianus based on their distinct genomes. New insight into the hybrid nature of lager yeast will provide novel directions for future strain improvement.
authors.affiliation: Carlsberg Laboratory, Yeast Genetics, Copenhagen, Denmark juergen.wendland@carlsberglab.dk.
authors.forename: Jürgen
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Wendland
mesh_terms: D001515:Beer / Q000382:microbiology*; D005075:Biological Evolution; D015825:Chromosomes, Fungal / Q000235:genetics; D005285:Fermentation; D016681:Genome, Fungal; D059014:High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing; D006801:Humans; D012440:Saccharomyces / Q000235:genetics* / Q000378:metabolism; D013045:Species Specificity
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