Evolutionary Ecology of Marine Yeasts as Determined by      Molecular Relatedness
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There is a considerable lack of knowledge of the role of                marine microorganisms is biogeochemical cycling and other                       processes.  This is due, in part, to inadequate information on                  the fundamental biology of these marine organisms.  Recent                      advances in molecular biology have made tools available to answer               a variety of basic questions.  This research will examine the                   origin and phylogenetic relationships among marine yeasts.                      Preliminary investigations indicate that marine yeasts originated               from terrestrial plant parasites, the heterobacidiomycetes, a                   group that includes such fungi as the rusts and smuts.  Recent                  studies have shown that the heterobasidiomycetes are capable of                 producing free living yeasts stages that may be distributed by                  wing or land drainage.  Our studies, based on phenotypic                        characteristics, suggests that many of the marine yeasts are                    evolved from, or are identical to, the yeasts stages of the plant               parasites.  However, molecular studies, based on nuclear DNA                    relatedness, have shown that comparisons based on phenotypic                    responses can be misleading because the genetic bases for many of               thes criteria reside in only a few genes.  We propose to                        determine the relationships between species of marine yeasts and                the relationships of yeasts to terrestrial plant parasites                      through studies of molecular relatedness.
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