Talk:Killer yeast

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First observed[edit]

The citation intended to support the statement "The phenomenon was first observed by Louis Pasteur, as noted in 1877" does not seem to be about killer yeasts; instead it's about anthrax. Was this citation used by mistake? Or perhaps the discussion about anthrax is relevant to killer yeasts in a way I didn't understand? As far as I can tell, the first mention of killer yeasts in the literature is a pair of abstracts by Makower and Bevan from 1963 (Bevan EA, Makower, M 1963. The physiological basis of the killer character in yeast. Proc. 11th int. Congr. Genet. I , 203; Makower M, Bevan EA. 1963. The inheritance of a killer character in yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae). Proceedings of the 11th International Congress of Genetics 1 : 202). Does the person who included the Pasteur citation know something more? MicrobeFun (talk) 15:33, 16 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

The statement was added by @Fasquelle: in in January 2010. he added information about the 1963 discovery a day earlier. I don't have access to the references any more and can't verify anything.-gadfium 23:45, 16 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

two viruses not one[edit]

The toxin actually comes from a second virus involved (Saccharomyces cerevisiae killer virus M1 (ScV-M1)), see https://academic.oup.com/femsre/article/26/3/257/497293. --SCIdude (talk) 07:49, 16 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]