Public-good driven release of heterogeneous resources leads to genotypic diversification of an isogenic yeast population in melibiose.
A. Mahilkar, P. Alugoju, V. Kavatalkar, R. E., J. Bhat, S. Saini
This study shows that an isogenic yeast population diversifies when grown on melibiose due to mutations in the GAL3 gene, which drives the release of a public good enzyme.
bioRxiv · Apr 12, 2021Microbiology