Saccharomyces cerevisiae mitochondria are required for optimal attractiveness to Drosophila melanogaster.

While screening a large collection of wild and laboratory yeast strains for their ability to attract Drosophila melanogaster adults, we noticed a large difference in fly preference for two nearly isogenic strains of Saccharomyces cerevisiae, BY4741 and BY4742. Using standard genetic analyses, we tra...

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Main Authors: Kelly M Schiabor, Allison S Quan, Michael B Eisen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4252075?pdf=render