Allodiploidization is a fundamental yet evolutionarily poorly characterized event, which impacts genome evolution and heredity, controlling organismal development and polyploid cell-types. In this study, we investigated the sex determination system in the allodiploid and sterile ATCC 42981 yeast, a member of the Zygosaccharomyces rouxii species complex, and used it to study how a chimeric matin...

Different chemicals were used to study the effect of pretreatment of Mucor rouxii biomass on bioadsorption of Pb, Cd, Ni and Zn. Pretreatment with detergent and alkali chemicals such as NaOH, Na 2 CO 3 and NaHCO 3 were found to improve or maintain the bioadsorption capacity in comparison with live M. rouxii biomass. Acid pretreatment using HCl, H 2 SO 4 and C 2 H 4 O 2 resulted in a significant...

The respiratory activity of the sugar-tolerant (osmophilic) yeast, Saccharomyces rouxii, and the non-tolerant species, Sacchromyces cerevisiae, were compared after growth in a complex basal medium, the medium supplemented with polyethylene glycol (mol. wt 200) to give a water activity of 0-95, and the medium supplemented with glucose (24 and 36%, w/v). The properties compared were Qo2 (glucose)...